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CVE-2018-1000849

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 3.53% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-12-20 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
exploit remote code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2018-1000849
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
3.53%
Linux

Original NVD 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.