Alpine: multiple k3s packages: security update to 1.21.3-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400173

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- K3s in SUSE Rancher allows any user with direct access to the datastore, or a copy of a datastore backup,
to extract the cluster's confidential keying material (cluster certificate authority private keys, secrets
encryption configuration passphrase, etc.) and decrypt it, without having to know the token value. This
issue affects: SUSE Rancher K3s version v1.19.12+k3s1, v1.20.8+k3s1, v1.21.2+k3s1 and prior versions; RKE2
version v1.19.12+rke2r1, v1.20.8+rke2r1, v1.21.2+rke2r1 and prior versions. (CVE-2021-32001)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400173

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32001

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32001

Detections

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