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Alpine: multiple cpio packages: security update to 2.13-r2

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 403915

Description

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

 - GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a
 dstring.c ds_fgetstr integer overflow that triggers an out-of-bounds heap write. NOTE: it is unclear
 whether there are common cases where the pattern file, associated with the -E option, is untrusted data.
 (CVE-2021-38185)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-38185

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403915

Version: Revision 1.27

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: 6.9

Percentile: 97.36

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38185

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 8/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-38185