CVE-2021-38370 — Command Injection in Project Alpine

CWE-77 — Command Injection6 documents5 sources
Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
0.4%
top 40.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Alpine Project AlpineDebian Alpine
Timeline
PublishedAug 10
Latest updateMar 20

Description

In Alpine before 2.25, untagged responses from an IMAP server are accepted before STARTTLS.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/alpine< alpine 2.25+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianalpine_project/alpine< 2.25+dfsg1-1+2
▶Ubuntualpine_project/alpine< 2.20+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
alpine vulnerabilities↗2025-03-20
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GHSA
GHSA-2c2h-qvww-cw95: In Alpine through 2↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2021-38370: In Alpine before 2↗2021-08-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Alpine vulnerabilities↗2025-03-20
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Debian
CVE-2021-38370: alpine - In Alpine before 2.25, untagged responses from an IMAP server are accepted befor...↗2021
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