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Alpine: openssl: security update to 1.1.1t-r2

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406108

Description

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

 - A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported versions of OpenSSL related to the
 verification of X.509 certificate chains that include policy constraints. Attackers may be able to exploit
 this vulnerability by creating a malicious certificate chain that triggers exponential use of
 computational resources, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on affected systems. Policy
 processing is disabled by default but can be enabled by passing the `-policy' argument to the command line
 utilities or by calling the `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function. (CVE-2023-0464)

 - Applications that use a non-default option when verifying certificates may be vulnerable to an attack from
 a malicious CA to circumvent certain checks. Invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are
 silently ignored by OpenSSL and other certificate policy checks are skipped for that certificate. A
 malicious CA could use this to deliberately assert invalid certificate policies in order to circumvent
 policy checking on the certificate altogether. Policy processing is disabled by default but can be enabled
 by passing the `-policy' argument to the command line utilities or by calling the
 `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function. (CVE-2023-0465)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-0464

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-0465

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 406108

Version: Revision 1.41

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: 23.65

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0464, CVE-2023-0465

IAVA: 2023-A-0158-S