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Alpine: multiple go packages: security update to 1.20.10-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404777

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - A malicious HTTP/2 client which rapidly creates requests and immediately resets them can cause excessive
 server resource consumption. While the total number of requests is bounded by the
 http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting, resetting an in-progress request allows the attacker to create
 a new request while the existing one is still executing. With the fix applied, HTTP/2 servers now bound
 the number of simultaneously executing handler goroutines to the stream concurrency limit
 (MaxConcurrentStreams). New requests arriving when at the limit (which can only happen after the client
 has reset an existing, in-flight request) will be queued until a handler exits. If the request queue grows
 too large, the server will terminate the connection. This issue is also fixed in golang.org/x/net/http2
 for users manually configuring HTTP/2. The default stream concurrency limit is 250 streams (requests) per
 HTTP/2 connection. This value may be adjusted using the golang.org/x/net/http2 package; see the
 Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting and the ConfigureServer function. (CVE-2023-39325)

 - The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation
 can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-39325

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-44487

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 404777

Version: Revision 1.56

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Percentile: 98.44

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39325, CVE-2023-44487

IAVB: 2023-B-0080-S