Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting cryptography package, versions [,1.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-CRYPTOGRAPHY-40445
  • published1 Nov 2016
  • disclosed1 Nov 2016
  • creditMarkus Rudy

Introduced: 1 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9243  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

cryptography provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. HKDF in cryptography before 1.5.2 returns an empty byte-string if used with a length less than algorithm.digest_size.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1