SUSE SLED15: python2-cryptography / python2-cryptography-vectors / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:4044-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167941

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4044-1 advisory.

- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1177083, jsc#PM-2730, jsc#SLE-18312)
- Refresh patches for new version
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1176785, jsc#ECO-3105, jsc#PM-2352)
- update to 2.9.2
* 2.9.2 - 2020-04-22
- Updated the macOS wheel to fix an issue where it would not run on macOS versions older than 10.15.
* 2.9.1 - 2020-04-21
- Updated Windows, macOS, and manylinux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.1g.
* 2.9 - 2020-04-02
- BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Support for Python 3.4 has been removed due to low usage and maintenance burden.
- BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 has been removed.
Users on older version of OpenSSL will need to upgrade.
- BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Support for LibreSSL 2.6.x has been removed.
- Removed support for calling public_bytes() with no arguments, as per our deprecation policy. You must now pass encoding and format.
- BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Reversed the order in which rfc4514_string() returns the RDNs as required by RFC 4514.
- Updated Windows, macOS, and manylinux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.1f.
- Added support for parsing single_extensions in an OCSP response.
- NameAttribute values can now be empty strings.

- Add openSSL_111d.patch to make this version of the package compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.1d, thus fixing bsc#1149792.

- bsc#1101820 CVE-2018-10903 GCM tag forgery via truncated tag in finalize_with_tag API
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1177083, jsc#PM-2730, jsc#SLE-18312)
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1176785, jsc#ECO-3105, jsc#PM-2352)
- update to 2.9.2:
* updated vectors for the cryptography 2.9.2 testing

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

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

Solution

Update the affected python2-cryptography, python2-cryptography-vectors, python3-cryptography and / or python3-cryptography-vectors packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167941

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4044-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/19/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10903

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-cryptography, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10903

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4044-1

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