SUSE SLES15 Security Update : python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors (SUSE-SU-2023:0604-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172065

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0604-1 advisory.

- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

- CVE-2020-36242: Fixed a bug where certain sequences of update() calls could result in integer overflow (bsc#1182066).
- CVE-2020-25659: Fixed Bleichenbacher vulnerabilities (bsc#1178168).

- update to 3.3.2 (bsc#1198331)

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

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

Solution

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172065

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0604-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/3/2023

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36242

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Threat Score: 7.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25659, CVE-2020-36242

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0604-1

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