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Alpine: wpa_supplicant: security update to 2.6-r9

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407706

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in rsn_supp/wpa.c in wpa_supplicant 2.0 through 2.6. Under certain conditions, the
 integrity of EAPOL-Key messages is not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker within range
 of the Access Point and client can abuse the vulnerability to recover sensitive information.
 (CVE-2018-14526)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-14526

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 407706

Version: Revision 1.27

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: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14526

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 8/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14526