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Alpine: expat: security update to 2.7.2-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435386

Description

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

 - libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small
 document that is submitted for parsing. (CVE-2025-59375)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-59375

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435386

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Published: 9/22/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 96.48

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-59375

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-59375

IAVA: 2025-A-0687