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Alpine: curl: security update to 7.50.2

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 403956

Description

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

 - curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime,
 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a
 previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a
 different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420. (CVE-2016-7141)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-7141

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403956

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7141

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7141

BID: 92754