vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14032: Improper Authentication

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 30, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.21 and 2.x before 2.1.9, if optional authentication is configured, allows remote attackers to bypass peer authentication via an X.509 certificate chain with many intermediates. NOTE: although mbed TLS was formerly known as PolarSSL, the releases shipped with the PolarSSL name are not affected.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-mbedtlsalpine-linux-upgrade-mbedtls2
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