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Alpine: openssl: security update to 3.0.8-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406122

Description

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

 - 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)

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 406122

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0464

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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: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

IAVA: 2023-A-0158-S