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Alpine: multiple git packages, multiple perl-git packages: security update to 2.19.1-r0

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423954

Description

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

 - Git before 2.14.5, 2.15.x before 2.15.3, 2.16.x before 2.16.5, 2.17.x before 2.17.2, 2.18.x before 2.18.1,
 and 2.19.x before 2.19.1 allows remote code execution during processing of a recursive "git clone" of a
 superproject if a .gitmodules file has a URL field beginning with a '-' character. (CVE-2018-17456)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-17456

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423954

Version: Revision 1.10

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: 6.9

Percentile: 97.35

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17456

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 10/6/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Malicious Git HTTP Server For CVE-2018-17456)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17456

BID: 105523, 107511