Alpine: multiple trafficserver9 packages, perl-trafficserver9: security update to 9.2.4-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427677

Description

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

- HTTP/2 CONTINUATION DoS attack can cause Apache Traffic Server to consume more resources on the server.
Version from 8.0.0 through 8.1.9, from 9.0.0 through 9.2.3 are affected. Users can set a new setting
(proxy.config.http2.max_continuation_frames_per_minute) to limit the number of CONTINUATION frames per
minute. ATS does have a fixed amount of memory a request can use and ATS adheres to these limits in
previous releases. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 8.1.10 or 9.2.4 which fixes the issue.
(CVE-2024-31309)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-31309

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 427677

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.93

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-31309

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-31309