Alpine: multiple dovecot packages: security update to 2.3.3-r2 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400613

Description

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

- It was discovered that Dovecot before versions 2.2.36.1 and 2.3.4.1 incorrectly handled client
certificates. A remote attacker in possession of a valid certificate with an empty username field could
possibly use this issue to impersonate other users. (CVE-2019-3814)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=5725c3c222d375b3272cdc3c99476cc274e0ddc9

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=bb6a081a73c891ab6b79d62611b9c25e473cf025

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400613

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3814

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 2/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3814