Alpine: multiple libxslt packages: security update to 1.1.38-r1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421124

Description

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

- xsltGetInheritedNsList in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free issue related to exclusion of result
prefixes. (CVE-2024-55549)

- numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath
context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue,
xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal. (CVE-2025-24855)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421124

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 3/14/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.48

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24855

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: 3/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-55549, CVE-2025-24855

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