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Alpine: multiple squashfs-tools packages: security update to 4.5-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424515

Description

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

 - squashfs_opendir in unsquash-2.c in Squashfs-Tools 4.5 allows Directory Traversal, a different
 vulnerability than CVE-2021-40153. A squashfs filesystem that has been crafted to include a symbolic link
 and then contents under the same filename in a filesystem can cause unsquashfs to first create the
 symbolic link pointing outside the expected directory, and then the subsequent write operation will cause
 the unsquashfs process to write through the symbolic link elsewhere in the filesystem. (CVE-2021-41072)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-41072

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424515

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 53.06

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41072

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 9/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41072