Alpine: multiple botan packages: security update to 2.18.1-r2 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400118

Description

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

- The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and other products, allows
plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous
combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's
public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.
(CVE-2021-40529)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400118

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

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: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40529

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40529

Detections

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