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Alpine: multiple virt-install packages: security update to 2.2.1-r0

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427262

Description

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

 - Virt-install(1) utility used to provision new virtual machines has introduced an option '--unattended' to
 create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments, thus
 leaking them to others users on the system via process listing. It was introduced recently in the virt-
 manager v2.2.0 release. (CVE-2019-10183)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-10183

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 427262

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10183

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10183

BID: 109027