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Alpine: multiple e2guardian packages: security update to 5.4.5r-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 404213

Description

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

 - e2guardian v5.4.x <= v5.4.3r is affected by missing SSL certificate validation in the SSL MITM engine. In
 standalone mode (i.e., acting as a proxy or a transparent proxy), with SSL MITM enabled, e2guardian, if
 built with OpenSSL v1.1.x, did not validate hostnames in certificates of the web servers that it connected
 to, and thus was itself vulnerable to MITM attacks. (CVE-2021-44273)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-44273

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404213

Version: Revision 1.27

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44273

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44273