Alpine: borg: security update to 1.2.4-r5 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401357

Description

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

- borgbackup is an opensource, deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. A flaw
in the cryptographic authentication scheme in borgbackup allowed an attacker to fake archives and
potentially indirectly cause backup data loss in the repository. The attack requires an attacker to be
able to: 1. insert files (with no additional headers) into backups and 2. gain write access to the
repository. This vulnerability does not disclose plaintext to the attacker, nor does it affect the
authenticity of existing archives. Creating plausible fake archives may be feasible for empty or small
archives, but is unlikely for large archives. The issue has been fixed in borgbackup 1.2.5. Users are
advised to upgrade. Additionally to installing the fixed code, users must follow the upgrade procedure as
documented in the change log. Data loss after being attacked can be avoided by reviewing the archives
(timestamp and contents valid and as expected) after any "borg check --repair" and before "borg prune".
There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-36811)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 401357

Version: Revision 1.47

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/1/2023

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: 23.66

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36811

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:N/I:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36811

Detections

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