CentOS 9 : python-cryptography-36.0.1-3.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191409

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the python- cryptography-36.0.1-3.el9 build changelog.

- Don't allow update_into to mutate immutable objects, resolves rhbz#2172399 (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-cryptography package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191409

File Name: centos9_python-cryptography-36_0_1-3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-cryptography, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9

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: 4/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23931

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