Alpine: varnish: security update to 7.3.2-r0

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 408356

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation
can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

- Varnish Cache before 7.3.2 and 7.4.x before 7.4.3 (and before 6.0.13 LTS), and Varnish Enterprise 6 before
6.0.12r6, allows credits exhaustion for an HTTP/2 connection control flow window, aka a Broke Window
Attack. (CVE-2024-30156)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-44487

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-30156

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 408356

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Published: 4/8/2024

Updated: 12/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Percentile: 98.44

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44487, CVE-2024-30156