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Alpine: multiple mbedtls packages: security update to 2.4.2-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424174

Description

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

 - An exploitable free of a stack pointer vulnerability exists in the x509 certificate parsing code of ARM
 mbed TLS before 1.3.19, 2.x before 2.1.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.2. A specially crafted x509 certificate,
 when parsed by mbed TLS library, can cause an invalid free of a stack pointer leading to a potential
 remote code execution. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker can act as either a client or a
 server on a network to deliver malicious x509 certificates to vulnerable applications. (CVE-2017-2784)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-2784

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424174

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: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2784

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 3/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2784