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Alpine: multiple npm packages: security update to 10.9.1-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427366

Description

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

 - Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular
 Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU
 usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string. (CVE-2024-21538)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-21538

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 427366

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21538

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21538