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Alpine: multiple exim packages: security update to 4.93-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404248

Description

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

 - Exim through 4.93 has an out-of-bounds read in the SPA authenticator that could result in SPA/NTLM
 authentication bypass in auths/spa.c and auths/auth-spa.c. (CVE-2020-12783)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-12783

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404248

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12783

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12783