Cryptographic Issues Affecting cryptography package, versions [3.1 ,3.3.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.85% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-CRYPTOGRAPHY-1070544
  • published 8 Feb 2021
  • disclosed 8 Feb 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade cryptography to version 3.3.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues. Certain sequences of update calls to symmetrically encrypt multi-GB values could result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.1 critical
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SUSE

7.5 high
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Red Hat

8.2 high