Cryptographic Issues Affecting keyring package, versions (,0.9]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-KEYRING-40004
  • published11 Jan 2011
  • disclosed11 Jan 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jan 2011

CVE-2012-4571  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade to version 0.9.1 or greater.

Overview

keyring is a Store and access your passwords safely. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to weak password encryption attacks. Python Keyring 0.9.1 does not securely initialize the cipher when encrypting passwords for CryptedFileKeyring files, which makes it easier for local users to obtain passwords via a brute-force attack.

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