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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-8096: Improper Certificate Validation

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 11, 2024
Added
Oct 1, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as OCSP stapling, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it might fail to detect some OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine. If the returned status reports another error than 'revoked' (like for example 'unauthorized') it is not treated as a bad certficate.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-curl
Title
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