Observable Timing Discrepancy Affecting cryptography package, versions [,42.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-CRYPTOGRAPHY-6126975
  • published 15 Dec 2023
  • disclosed 14 Dec 2023
  • credit Hubert Kario

How to fix?

Upgrade cryptography to version 42.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Observable Timing Discrepancy. This issue may allow a remote attacker to decrypt captured messages in TLS servers that use RSA key exchanges, which may lead to exposure of confidential or sensitive data (Marvin).

Note:

This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-25659.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

7.5 high
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SUSE

5.9 medium
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Red Hat

7.5 high