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Alpine: cifs-utils: security update to 6.11-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 403835

Description

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

 - It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which
 could be used to inject arbitrary commands. An attacker able to invoke mount.cifs with special permission,
 such as via sudo rules, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges. (CVE-2020-14342)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-14342

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403835

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14342

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14342