Alpine: libcurl, multiple curl packages: security update to 7.83.0-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423826

Description

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

- An improper authentication vulnerability exists in curl 7.33.0 to and including 7.82.0 which might allow
reuse OAUTH2-authenticated connections without properly making sure that the connection was authenticated
with the same credentials as set for this transfer. This affects SASL-enabled protocols: SMPTP(S),
IMAP(S), POP3(S) and LDAP(S) (openldap only). (CVE-2022-22576)

- An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability exists in curl 4.9 to and include curl 7.82.0 are
affected that could allow an attacker to extract credentials when follows HTTP(S) redirects is used with
authentication could leak credentials to other services that exist on different protocols or port numbers.
(CVE-2022-27774)

- An information disclosure vulnerability exists in curl 7.65.0 to 7.82.0 are vulnerable that by using an
IPv6 address that was in the connection pool but with a different zone id it could reuse a connection
instead. (CVE-2022-27775)

- A insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability in fixed in curl 7.83.0 might leak authentication or
cookie header data on HTTP redirects to the same host but another port number. (CVE-2022-27776)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423826

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

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: 53.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22576

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22576, CVE-2022-27774, CVE-2022-27775, CVE-2022-27776

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