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Alpine: multiple botan packages: security update to 2.7.0-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423723

Description

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

 - Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka
 the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and
 ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a
 different virtual machine on the same physical host. (CVE-2018-12435)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-12435

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423723

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12435

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12435