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Alpine: nss: security update to 3.60-r2

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 405884

Description

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

 - NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow
 when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures
 encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for
 certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how
 they configure NSS. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However, email clients and
 PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and
 Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1.
 (CVE-2021-43527)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-43527

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 405884

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: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.07

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43527

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-43527