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Alpine: multiple mbedtls packages: security update to 2.16.12-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424166

Description

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

 - Mbed TLS before 3.0.1 has a double free in certain out-of-memory conditions, as demonstrated by an
 mbedtls_ssl_set_session() failure. (CVE-2021-44732)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-44732

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 424166

Version: Revision 1.8

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44732

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44732