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Alpine: rsync: security update to 3.1.3-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406951

Description

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

 - The parse_arguments function in options.c in rsyncd in rsync before 3.1.3 does not prevent multiple
 --protect-args uses, which allows remote attackers to bypass an argument-sanitization protection
 mechanism. (CVE-2018-5764)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-5764

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 406951

Version: Revision 1.28

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5764

BID: 102803