Timing Attack Affecting m2crypto package, versions [,0.39.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-M2CRYPTO-1040426
  • published 15 Nov 2020
  • disclosed 13 Nov 2020
  • credit Hubert Kario

How to fix?

Upgrade M2Crypto to version 0.39.0 or higher.

Overview

M2Crypto is a M2Crypto: A Python crypto and SSL toolkit

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack in the RSA decryption API via timed processing of valid PKCS#1 v1.5 ciphertext (Marvin).

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)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.9 medium
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SUSE

7.5 high
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Red Hat

7.5 high