Alpine: multiple wpa_supplicant packages: security update to 2.9-r11 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400254

Description

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

- A vulnerability was discovered in how p2p/p2p_pd.c in wpa_supplicant before 2.10 processes P2P (Wi-Fi
Direct) provision discovery requests. It could result in denial of service or other impact (potentially
execution of arbitrary code), for an attacker within radio range. (CVE-2021-27803)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400254

Version: Revision 1.27

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27803

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27803

Detections

Analytics