CVE-2018-1000849

2022-10-0316:21:59

mitre

www.cve.org

alpine linux

remote code execution

vulnerability

apk-file

arbitrary data write

9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.016 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.5%

JSON

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.