Alpine: gnupg1: security update to 1.4.22-r1 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400693

Description

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

- libgcrypt before version 1.7.8 is vulnerable to a cache side-channel attack resulting into a complete
break of RSA-1024 while using the left-to-right method for computing the sliding-window expansion. The
same attack is believed to work on RSA-2048 with moderately more computation. This side-channel requires
that attacker can run arbitrary software on the hardware where the private RSA key is used.
(CVE-2017-7526)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400693

Version: Revision 1.26

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: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7526

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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: 8/16/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7526

BID: 99338

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