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Alpine: multiple sudo packages: security update to 1.8.20_p2-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 426108

Description

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

 - Todd Miller's sudo version 1.8.20p1 and earlier is vulnerable to an input validation (embedded newlines)
 in the get_process_ttyname() function resulting in information disclosure and command execution.
 (CVE-2017-1000368)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-1000368

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 426108

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.11

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-2017-1000368

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/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: 6/5/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000368

BID: 98838

IAVA: 2017-A-0165-S