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Alpine: multiple cjson packages: security update to 1.7.17-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423775

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_InsertItemInArray
 at cJSON.c. (CVE-2023-50471)

 - cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_SetValuestring at
 cJSON.c. (CVE-2023-50472)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-50471

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-50472

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423775

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50472

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: 12/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50471, CVE-2023-50472