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Alpine: openssl: security update to 3.0.8-r3

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406124

Description

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

 - The function X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() is documented to implicitly enable the certificate policy
 check when doing certificate verification. However the implementation of the function does not enable the
 check which allows certificates with invalid or incorrect policies to pass the certificate verification.
 As suddenly enabling the policy check could break existing deployments it was decided to keep the existing
 behavior of the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() function. Instead the applications that require OpenSSL to
 perform certificate policy check need to use X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() or explicitly enable the
 policy check by calling X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags() with the X509_V_FLAG_POLICY_CHECK flag argument.
 Certificate policy checks are disabled by default in OpenSSL and are not commonly used by applications.
 (CVE-2023-0466)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-0466

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 406124

Version: Revision 1.36

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: 3.2

Percentile: 51.12

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-2023-0466

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 3/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0466