SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python-PyJWT (SUSE-SU-2023:0794-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172677

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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 a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0794-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-29217: Fixed Key confusion through non-blocklisted public key formats (bsc#1199756).

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

- Update to 2.4.0 (bsc#1199756)
- Explicit check the key for ECAlgorithm
- Don't use implicit optionals
- documentation fix: show correct scope
- fix: Update copyright information
- Don't mutate options dictionary in .decode_complete()
- Add support for Python 3.10
- api_jwk: Add PyJWKSet.__getitem__
- Update usage.rst
- Docs: mention performance reasons for reusing RSAPrivateKey when encoding
- Fixed typo in usage.rst
- Add detached payload support for JWS encoding and decoding
- Replace various string interpolations with f-strings by

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 python3-PyJWT package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172677

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0794-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/18/2023

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29217

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-pyjwt, 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: 3/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29217

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0794-1

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