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Alpine: multiple nix packages, perl-nix: security update to 2.20.5-r0

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 426052

Description

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

 - Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A fixed-output derivations on Linux can send
 file descriptors to files in the Nix store to another program running on the host (or another fixed-output
 derivation) via Unix domain sockets in the abstract namespace. This allows to modify the output of the
 derivation, after Nix has registered the path as "valid" and immutable in the Nix database. In particular,
 this allows the output of fixed-output derivations to be modified from their expected content. This issue
 has been addressed in versions 2.3.18 2.18.2 2.19.4 and 2.20.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no
 known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-27297)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-27297

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 426052

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.76

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27297

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27297