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Alpine: memcached: security update to 1.4.33-r2

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405574

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification,
 CWE-406) vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via
 network flood (traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources). This attack
 appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to port 11211 UDP. This vulnerability appears to have
 been fixed in 1.5.6 due to the disabling of the UDP protocol by default. (CVE-2018-1000115)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-1000115

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405574

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000115

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000115