TLS Truncation Attack Affecting cryptography package, versions [,1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-CRYPTOGRAPHY-40478
  • published 10 Sep 2015
  • disclosed 10 Sep 2015
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2015

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-222 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

cryptography provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to TLS Truncation. A malicious user can prevent a user from fetching the parts of a message by inserting TCP code into a message indicating the message has completed.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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