Alpine: multiple nss packages: security update to 3.53.1-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424260

Description

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

- During RSA key generation, bignum implementations used a variation of the Binary Extended Euclidean
Algorithm which entailed significantly input-dependent flow. This allowed an attacker able to perform
electromagnetic-based side channel attacks to record traces leading to the recovery of the secret primes.
*Note:* An unmodified Firefox browser does not generate RSA keys in normal operation and is not affected,
but products built on top of it might. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 78. (CVE-2020-12402)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 424260

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

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

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

Temporal Score: 0.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12402

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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: 7/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12402

Detections

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