Alpine: libcrypto3, multiple openssl packages: security update to 1.0.2-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401053

Description

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

- The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can
encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-
in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series
of guesses in which a string in an HTTP request potentially matches an unknown string in an HTTP header,
aka a "CRIME" attack. (CVE-2012-4929)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 401053

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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.49

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4929

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4929

BID: 55704

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