CVE-2018-1000849 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.8.1-released.html https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/apk-tools/commit/?id=6484ed9849f03971eb48ee1fdc21a2f128247eb1 https://justi.cz/security/2018/09/13/alpine-apk-rce.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8