CVE-2020-14929
alpine - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.21%
Description
Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user decide what they would like to do.
How to fix CVE-2020-14929
To remediate CVE-2020-14929, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.23+dfsg1-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.11+dfsg1-3+deb8u1 or later
Is CVE-2020-14929 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.23+dfsg1-1
- from 0, < 2.11+dfsg1-3+deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |