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Alpine: multiple sudo packages: security update to 1.8.27-r1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 407279

Description

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

 - In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy
 blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cause incorrect logging, by invoking sudo with a crafted user
 ID. For example, this allows bypass of !root configuration, and USER= logging, for a "sudo -u
 \#$((0xffffffff))" command. (CVE-2019-14287)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-14287

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 407279

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: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.06

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2019

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14287

IAVA: 2019-A-0378-S