CVE-2018-1000849: Alpinelinux Alpine Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Alpinelinux Alpine Linux: before 2.6.10 (fixed in 2.6.10); from 2.7.0, before 2.7.6 (fixed in 2.7.6); from 2.7.7, before 2.10.1 (fixed in 2.10.1)

Published 2018-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.