Alpine: miniperl, multiple perl packages: security update to 5.26.2-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400711

Description

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

- In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal
protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a
regular file with the same name. (CVE-2018-12015)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400711

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12015

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12015

BID: 104423

IAVA: 2018-A-0407-S

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