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Alpine: multiple rapidjson packages: security update to 1.1.0-r6

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427553

Description

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

 - Tencent RapidJSON is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to an integer underflow in the
 `GenericReader::ParseNumber()` function of `include/rapidjson/reader.h` when parsing JSON text from a
 stream. An attacker needs to send the victim a crafted file which needs to be opened; this triggers the
 integer underflow vulnerability (when the file is parsed), leading to elevation of privilege.
 (CVE-2024-38517)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-38517

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 427553

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.27

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38517

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 7/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38517