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Alpine: multiple apr packages: security update to 1.7.0-r2

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423673

Description

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

 - An out-of-bounds array read in the apr_time_exp*() functions was fixed in the Apache Portable Runtime
 1.6.3 release (CVE-2017-12613). The fix for this issue was not carried forward to the APR 1.7.x branch,
 and hence version 1.7.0 regressed compared to 1.6.3 and is vulnerable to the same issue. (CVE-2021-35940)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-35940

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423673

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-35940

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-35940