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Alpine: multiple wolfssl packages: security update to 5.5.1-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427265

Description

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

 - In wolfSSL before 5.5.1, malicious clients can cause a buffer overflow during a TLS 1.3 handshake. This
 occurs when an attacker supposedly resumes a previous TLS session. During the resumption Client Hello a
 Hello Retry Request must be triggered. Both Client Hellos are required to contain a list of duplicate
 cipher suites to trigger the buffer overflow. In total, two Client Hellos have to be sent: one in the
 resumed session, and a second one as a response to a Hello Retry Request message. (CVE-2022-39173)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-39173

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 427265

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

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: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-39173

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39173