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Alpine: openvpn: security update to 2.5.6-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406185

Description

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

 - OpenVPN 2.1 until v2.4.12 and v2.5.6 may enable authentication bypass in external authentication plug-ins
 when more than one of them makes use of deferred authentication replies, which allows an external user to
 be granted access with only partially correct credentials. (CVE-2022-0547)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-0547

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 406185

Version: Revision 1.38

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 1/5/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0547

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: 3/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0547