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SCA: security update for cryptography (GHSA-w7pp-m8wf-vj6r)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419790

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In
 affected versions `Cipher.update_into` would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol,
 but provide only immutable buffers. This would allow immutable objects (such as `bytes`) to be mutated,
 thus violating fundamental rules of Python and resulting in corrupted output. This now correctly raises an
 exception. This issue has been present since `update_into` was originally introduced in cryptography 1.8.
 (CVE-2023-23931)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w7pp-m8wf-vj6r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 419790

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.41

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-23931

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23931

cwe: CWE-754