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Alpine: hostapd: security update to 2.9-r4

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404909

Description

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

 - The implementations of SAE in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side
 channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix
 for CVE-2019-9494. (CVE-2022-23303)

 - The implementations of EAP-pwd in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to
 side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an
 incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9495. (CVE-2022-23304)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-23303

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-23304

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 404909

Version: Revision 1.33

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23304

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23303, CVE-2022-23304