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CVE-2018-1000849
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-20T15:29:02.347 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:33:10.413

Summary

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 products

alpinelinux — alpine_linux

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