Alpine: multiple composer packages: security update to 2.1.8-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400103

Description

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

- Composer is an open source dependency manager for the PHP language. In affected versions windows users
running Composer to install untrusted dependencies are subject to command injection and should upgrade
their composer version. Other OSs and WSL are not affected. The issue has been resolved in composer
versions 1.10.23 and 2.1.9. There are no workarounds for this issue. (CVE-2021-41116)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=301b9804aba15a2e0ce1989e082eb1fe29b2fbe2

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=9d25650c7a4b6ff1ddf527ec3cea1e6467f7acb7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400103

Version: Revision 1.32

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41116