Alpine: multiple apache2 packages: security update to 2.4.34-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400678

Description

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

- In Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 to 2.4.34, by sending continuous, large SETTINGS frames a client can occupy a
connection, server thread and CPU time without any connection timeout coming to effect. This affects only
HTTP/2 connections. A possible mitigation is to not enable the h2 protocol. (CVE-2018-11763)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=2bedfb52bb094dc243ab9da2a67a4f91c8fde4cc

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=f6d1356e6015d7539e9c147abbd2e13d4e2e0251

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400678

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

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: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11763

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 10/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11763

BID: 105414

IAVA: 2018-A-0310-S