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Alpine: multiple mbedtls2 packages: security update to 2.16.4-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427200

Description

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

 - The ECDSA signature implementation in ecdsa.c in Arm Mbed Crypto 2.1 and Mbed TLS through 2.19.1 does not
 reduce the blinded scalar before computing the inverse, which allows a local attacker to recover the
 private key via side-channel attacks. (CVE-2019-18222)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-18222

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427200

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18222

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/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: 1/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18222