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Alpine: multiple maddy packages: security update to 0.6.3-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436218

Description

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

 - maddy is a composable, all-in-one mail server. Starting with version 0.2.0 and prior to version 0.6.3,
 maddy allows a full authentication bypass if SASL authorization username is specified when using the PLAIN
 authentication mechanisms. Instead of validating the specified username, it is accepted as is after
 checking the credentials for the authentication username. maddy 0.6.3 includes the fix for the bug. There
 are no known workarounds. (CVE-2023-27582)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-27582

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 436218

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Published: 12/4/2025

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: 57.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27582

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27582