CVE-2019-5021(alpinelinux / alpine_linux)

LOWCVSS 9.8 · CRITICAL

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

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.

1.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-258

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

AVAILABLE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • alpine_linux
  • big-ip_controller
  • docker-alpine
  • leap

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Products
alpine_linuxbig-ip_controllerdocker-alpineleap

4 versions affected across 4 products

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-11-05: 111-05
Full discourse1 post
  • Sergio de los Santos@ssantosv

    2019: las imágenes de Alpine en docker dejan de usar root sin hash de contraseña por culpa de CVE-2019-5021 y usan el carácter !, pero esto rompía las claves ssh. Así que en 2022, Alpine decide volver a usar el * como hash de root sin contraseña.

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CPE platform detail5 entries

5 of 5 entries

PartVendorProductVersionTarget SWTarget HW
OSalpinelinuxalpine_linux---
Appf5big-ip_controller1.2.1cloud_foundry-
Appgliderlabsdocker-alpine---
OSopensuseleap15.0--
OSopensuseleap15.1--

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