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Alpine: multiple cjson packages: security update to 1.7.19-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435798

Description

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

 - cJSON 1.5.0 through 1.7.18 allows out-of-bounds access via the decode_array_index_from_pointer function in
 cJSON_Utils.c, allowing remote attackers to bypass array bounds checking and access restricted data via
 malformed JSON pointer strings containing alphanumeric characters. (CVE-2025-57052)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-57052

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 435798

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Published: 10/27/2025

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: 57.88

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-57052

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-57052