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CentOS 9 : python3.11-cryptography-37.0.2-4.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191347

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for python3.11-cryptography.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the python3.11-cryptography-37.0.2-4.el9 build changelog.

 - 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)

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 CentOS 9 Stream python3.11-cryptography package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=30644

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191347

File Name: centos9_python3_11-cryptography-37_0_2-4.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11-cryptography

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23931