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Alpine: multiple perl-xml-sig packages: security update to 0.68-r0

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436239

Description

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

 - XML-Sig versions 0.27 through 0.67 for Perl incorrectly validates XML files if signatures are omitted. An
 attacker can remove the signature from the XML document to make it pass the verification check. XML-Sig is
 a Perl module to validate signatures on XML files. An unsigned XML file should return an error message.
 The affected versions return true when attempting to validate an XML file that contains no signatures.
 (CVE-2025-40934)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-40934

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 436239

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Published: 12/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.43

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40934

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40934