Alpine: multiple dpkg packages: security update to 1.21.8-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423871

Description

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

- Dpkg::Source::Archive in dpkg, the Debian package management system, before version 1.21.8, 1.20.10,
1.19.8, 1.18.26 is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. When extracting untrusted source packages
in v2 and v3 source package formats that include a debian.tar, the in-place extraction can lead to
directory traversal situations on specially crafted orig.tar and debian.tar tarballs. (CVE-2022-1664)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423871

Version: Revision 1.16

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1664

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 5/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1664

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