Vulnerability in botan (ALPINE-CVE-2021-24115)

Summary

Vulnerability in botan (ALPINE-CVE-2021-24115). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 2.11.0-r4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In Botan before 2.17.3, constant-time computations are not used for certain decoding and encoding operations (base32, base58, base64, and hex).

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as ALPINE-CVE-2021-24115 has been found in botan.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade botan to 2.11.0-r4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "botan ALPINE-CVE-2021-24115" on the vendor's site.

ALPINE-CVE-2021-24115 (botan)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 2.11.0-r4 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in botan.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of botan.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 2.11.0-r4.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'botan' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'botan' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で botan を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade botan to 2.11.0-r4
```
ステージング環境で 2.11.0-r4 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.11 botan

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.11.0-r4"}]}]

Alpine:v3.12 botan

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.11.0-r6"}]}]

Alpine:v3.13 botan

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.11.0-r6"}]}]

Alpine:v3.14 botan