vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-28085: Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Mar 27, 2024 | Aug 22, 2024 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 27, 2024
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
wall in util-linux through 2.40, often installed with setgid tty permissions, allows escape sequences to be sent to other users' terminals through argv. (Specifically, escape sequences received from stdin are blocked, but escape sequences received from argv are not blocked.) There may be plausible scenarios where this leads to account takeover.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-util-linux
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