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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2019-5021

Versions of the Official Alpine Linux Docker images (since v3.3) contain a NULL password for the `root` user. This vulnerability appears to be the result of a regression introduced in December of 2015. Due to the nature of this issue, systems deployed using affected versions of the Alpine Linux container which utilize Linux PAM, or some other mechanism which uses the system shadow file as an authentication database, may accept a NULL password for the `root` user.

No Active Exploit Signals
CVSS Base Score
9.8
CRITICAL
Exploitability:3.9
Impact Score:5.9
Temporal Score:-
EPSS:6.26%

Threat Intelligence Signals

CISA KEV
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KEV Date Added
Ransomware Use
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VulnCheck In-the-Wild
No
Nuclei Template
No
EPSS Score
6.263%
EPSS Percentile
92.7th pct
GitHub Severity
CRITICAL
SSVC Exploitation
SSVC Automatable
Vulnerability Class

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Exploit DB ReferencesNone identified

Affected Products & Versions

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