Alpine: multiple cups-filters packages: security update to 1.28.17-r2 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400071

Description

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

- cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service
working on operating systems other than macos. If you use the Backend Error Handler (beh) to create an
accessible network printer, this security vulnerability can cause remote code execution. `beh.c` contains
the line `retval = system(cmdline) >> 8;` which calls the `system` command with the operand `cmdline`.
`cmdline` contains multiple user controlled, unsanitized values. As a result an attacker with network
access to the hosted print server can exploit this vulnerability to inject system commands which are
executed in the context of the running server. This issue has been addressed in commit `8f2740357` and is
expected to be bundled in the next release. Users are advised to upgrade when possible and to restrict
access to network printers in the meantime. (CVE-2023-24805)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400071

Version: Revision 1.36

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/17/2023

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: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24805

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24805

Detections

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