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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting pycrypto package, versions [,2.7a1]

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.43% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYCRYPTO-40249
  • published 1 Aug 2017
  • disclosed 15 Dec 2015
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 15 Dec 2015

CVE-2013-7459 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

The fix is merged to the master branch but not yet published

Overview

pycrypto is a Cryptographic modules for Python.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace.c in Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as demonstrated by a crafted iv parameter to cryptmsg.py.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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