CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-1000849

8.8 HIGH Published 2018-12-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Alpine Linux version Versions prior to 2.6.10, 2.7.6, and 2.10.1 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in apk-tools (Alpine Linux' package manager) that can result in Remote Code Execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via A specially crafted APK-file can cause apk to write arbitrary data to an attacker-specified file, due to bugs in handling long link target name and the way a regular file is extracted.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.6.10, 2.7.6, and 2.10.1.

Affected configurations

• alpinelinux alpine linux (< 2.6.10) • alpinelinux alpine linux (>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.6) • alpinelinux alpine linux (>= 2.7.7 < 2.10.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References