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Fedora 39 : python-cryptography (2023-51706f88e3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194671

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-51706f88e3 advisory.

 Automatic update for python-cryptography-37.0.2-8.fc39.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Wed Feb 22 2023 Christian Heimes <[email protected]> - 37.0.2-8
 - Fix CVE-2023-23931: Don't allow update_into to mutate immutable objects, resolves rhbz#2171820
 - Fix FTBFS due to failing test_load_invalid_ec_key_from_pem and test_decrypt_invalid_decrypt, resolves rhbz#2171661
 * Fri Jan 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 37.0.2-7
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
 * Fri Dec 9 2022 Christian Heimes <[email protected]> - 37.0.2-6
 - Enable SHA1 signatures in test suite (ELN-only)

 ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 python-cryptography package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-51706f88e3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194671

File Name: fedora_2023-51706f88e3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-cryptography

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23931