PyPi: Cryptography

CVE-2023-23931

Safety vulnerability ID: 53048

This vulnerability was reviewed by experts

The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Feb 07, 2023 Updated at Oct 18, 2024
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Advisory

Cryptography 39.0.1 includes a fix for CVE-2023-23931: 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 issue has been present since 'update_into' was originally introduced in cryptography 1.8.

Affected package

cryptography

Latest version: 43.0.3

cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability 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. See CVE-2023-23931.


MISC:https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/8230/commits/94a50a9731f35405f0357fa5f3b177d46a726ab3: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/8230/commits/94a50a9731f35405f0357fa5f3b177d46a726ab3
MISC:https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-w7pp-m8wf-vj6r: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-w7pp-m8wf-vj6r

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

MEDIUM 6.5

CVSS v3 Details

MEDIUM 6.5
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
LOW
Availability Availability (A)
LOW