Alpine: multiple strongswan packages: security update to 5.9.1-r3 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407690

Description

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

- In strongSwan before 5.9.5, a malicious responder can send an EAP-Success message too early without
actually authenticating the client and (in the case of EAP methods with mutual authentication and EAP-only
authentication for IKEv2) even without server authentication. (CVE-2021-45079)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 407690

Version: Revision 1.39

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 2/12/2022

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45079

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45079

Detections

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