vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-4883: Untrusted Search Path

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 7, 2023
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in libXpm. When processing files with .Z or .gz extensions, the library calls external programs to compress and uncompress files, relying on the PATH environment variable to find these programs, which could allow a malicious user to execute other programs by manipulating the PATH environment variable.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libxpm
Title
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