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CVE-2023-40217

Safety vulnerability ID: 60680

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Created at Aug 25, 2023 Updated at Nov 29, 2024
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Advisory

Python 3.8.18, 3.9.18, 3.10.13, 3.11.5 and 3.12.0rc2 include a fix for CVE-2023-40217: It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly, there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as "not connected" and won't initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the buffer. The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/108310
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/PEPLII27KYHLF4AK3ZQGKYNCRERG4YXY

Affected package

python

Latest version: 0.9.8

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

An issue was discovered in Python before 3.8.18, 3.9.x before 3.9.18, 3.10.x before 3.10.13, and 3.11.x before 3.11.5. It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly, there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as "not connected" and won't initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the buffer. (The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.) See CVE-2023-40217.


CONFIRM:https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/PEPLII27KYHLF4AK3ZQGKYNCRERG4YXY/: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/PEPLII27KYHLF4AK3ZQGKYNCRERG4YXY/
MISC:https://www.python.org/dev/security/: https://www.python.org/dev/security/

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

MEDIUM 5.3

CVSS v3 Details

MEDIUM 5.3
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
LOW
Integrity Impact (I)
NONE
Availability Availability (A)
NONE