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Alpine: multiple cifs-utils packages: security update to 6.15-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423787

Description

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

 - In cifs-utils through 6.14, a stack-based buffer overflow when parsing the mount.cifs ip= command-line
 argument could lead to local attackers gaining root privileges. (CVE-2022-27239)

 - cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging, can cause an information leak when a file contains = (equal
 sign) characters but is not a valid credentials file. (CVE-2022-29869)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-27239

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-29869

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423787

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

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: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-27239

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27239, CVE-2022-29869