The version of openssl installed on the remote host is prior to 1.0.2k-16.152. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2020-1456 advisory.

    A null pointer dereference flaw was found in openssl. A remote attacker, able to control the arguments of     the GENERAL_NAME_cmp function, could cause the application, compiled with openssl to crash resulting in a     denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-1971)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2020-1456)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143887

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.8 Dec 11, 2024, 10:15 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412112215
Version 1.7 Dec 6, 2022, 2:54 AM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212060254