Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-cryptography  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PYTHONCRYPTOGRAPHY-9865949
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed18 Jul 2018

Introduced: 18 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-10903  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-cryptography package and not the python-cryptography package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in python-cryptography versions between >=1.9.0 and <2.3. The finalize_with_tag API did not enforce a minimum tag length. If a user did not validate the input length prior to passing it to finalize_with_tag an attacker could craft an invalid payload with a shortened tag (e.g. 1 byte) such that they would have a 1 in 256 chance of passing the MAC check. GCM tag forgeries can cause key leakage.