Alpine: multiple wpa_supplicant packages: security update to 2.9-r12 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400235

Description

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

- In wpa_supplicant and hostapd 2.9, forging attacks may occur because AlgorithmIdentifier parameters are
mishandled in tls/pkcs1.c and tls/x509v3.c. (CVE-2021-30004)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400235

Version: Revision 1.25

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-30004

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 4/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-30004

Detections

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