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Alpine: multiple polkit packages: security update to 0.105-r10

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406436

Description

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

 - In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is
 not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid
 checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c. (CVE-2019-6133)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-6133

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 406436

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: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6133

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6133

BID: 106537