Alpine: multiple nrpe packages: security update to 4.0.0-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424232

Description

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

- Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has Insufficient Filtering because, for example, nasty_metachars interprets \n as the
character \ and the character n (not as the \n newline sequence). This can cause command injection.
(CVE-2020-6581)

- Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow, as demonstrated by interpretation of a small negative
number as a large positive number during a bzero call. (CVE-2020-6582)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424232

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

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: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6581

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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: 3/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6581, CVE-2020-6582

Detections

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