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Alpine: openvpn-auth-ldap: security update to 2.0.4-r7

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427812

Description

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

 - Buffer overflow in the extract_openvpn_cr function in openvpn-cr.c in openvpn-auth-ldap (aka the Three
 Rings Auth-LDAP plugin for OpenVPN) 2.0.4 allows attackers with a valid LDAP username and who can control
 the challenge/response password field to pass a string with more than 14 colons into this field and cause
 a buffer overflow. (CVE-2024-28820)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-28820

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427812

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Published: 5/30/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28820

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28820