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Alpine: multiple pacman packages: security update to 5.2.0-r0

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406203

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in conf.c in the
 download_with_xfercommand() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit
 the vulnerability, the user must enable a non-default XferCommand and retrieve an attacker-controlled
 crafted database and package. (CVE-2019-18182)

 - pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in lib/libalpm/sync.c in the apply_deltas()
 function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user
 must enable the non-default delta feature and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and delta
 file. (CVE-2019-18183)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-18182

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-18183

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 406203

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

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-2019-18183

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18182, CVE-2019-18183