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SCA: security update for cryptography (GHSA-79v4-65xg-pq4g)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420869

Description

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

 - Issue summary: Clients using RFC7250 Raw Public Keys (RPKs) to authenticate a server may fail to notice
 that the server was not authenticated, because handshakes don't abort as expected when the SSL_VERIFY_PEER
 verification mode is set. Impact summary: TLS and DTLS connections using raw public keys may be vulnerable
 to man-in-middle attacks when server authentication failure is not detected by clients. RPKs are disabled
 by default in both TLS clients and TLS servers. The issue only arises when TLS clients explicitly enable
 RPK use by the server, and the server, likewise, enables sending of an RPK instead of an X.509 certificate
 chain. The affected clients are those that then rely on the handshake to fail when the server's RPK fails
 to match one of the expected public keys, by setting the verification mode to SSL_VERIFY_PEER. Clients
 that enable server-side raw public keys can still find out that raw public key verification failed by
 calling SSL_get_verify_result(), and those that do, and take appropriate action, are not affected. This
 issue was introduced in the initial implementation of RPK support in OpenSSL 3.2. The FIPS modules in 3.4,
 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue. (CVE-2024-12797)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-79v4-65xg-pq4g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 420869

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/11/2025

Updated: 11/9/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

Percentile: 96.11

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12797

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12797