SCA: security update for cryptography (GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 445591

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.
Prior to 49.0.0, if an intermediate constrained CA permits the DNS name foo.example.com, and the leaf
certificate has a wildcard in its DNS SAN of *.example.com, python-cryptography's verifier accepts which
allows escaping outside of the permitted names. The core issue is in DNSConstraint::matches, where a
wildcard pattern was treated as matching a more-specific permitted constraint even though *.example.com
can expand to sibling names such as bar.example.com outside foo.example.com. This allows acceptance of an
invalid certificate chain. This issue is fixed in 49.0.0. (CVE-2026-69248)

Solution

Update the cryptography library and its related packages to version 49.0.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445591

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/4/2026

Updated: 8/4/2026

Risk Information

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-69248

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Threat Score: 4.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-69248

cwe: CWE-295

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