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Alpine: multiple wolfssl packages: security update to 5.7.2-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427114

Description

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

 - In function MatchDomainName(), input param str is treated as a NULL terminated string despite being user
 provided and unchecked. Specifically, the function X509_check_host() takes in a pointer and length to
 check against, with no requirements that it be NULL terminated. If a caller was attempting to do a name
 check on a non-NULL terminated buffer, the code would read beyond the bounds of the input array until it
 found a NULL terminator.This issue affects wolfSSL: through 5.7.0. (CVE-2024-5991)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-5991

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 427114

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5991

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Threat Score: 9.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5991