Alpine Linux abuild through 3.4.0 allows an unprivileged member of the abuild group to add an untrusted package via a --keys-dir option tha…

published 2019-06-18 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-4454

cvss: 6.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits: 0; none known

Alpine Linux abuild through 3.4.0 allows an unprivileged member of the abuild group to add an untrusted package via a --keys-dir option that causes acceptance of an untrusted signing key.

Patch / fix

links 2

github.com/sroracle/abuild@4f90ce9 commit
code.foxkit.us/adelie/packages@15b1607 commit

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Exploit prediction

1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
CWE-862 Missing Authorization

References

github.com /sroracle/abuild/commit/4f90ce92778d0ee302e288def75591b96a397c8b
patch, third-party-advisory
code.foxkit.us /adelie/packages/commit/15b160780c6eeff7048063c099a7f8757e1d8391
patch, third-party-advisory
security.netapp.com /advisory/ntap-20190625-0005/

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-12875
NVD CVE-2019-12875

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