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Alpine: multiple mbedtls2 packages: security update to 2.16.3-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427446

Description

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

 - Arm Mbed TLS before 2.19.0 and Arm Mbed Crypto before 2.0.0, when deterministic ECDSA is enabled, use an
 RNG with insufficient entropy for blinding, which might allow an attacker to recover a private key via
 side-channel attacks if a victim signs the same message many times. (For Mbed TLS, the fix is also
 available in versions 2.7.12 and 2.16.3.) (CVE-2019-16910)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-16910

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427446

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16910

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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: 9/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16910