CVE-2020-25659 Affecting python2-cryptography package, versions <3.3.2-150200.16.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.46% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-PYTHON2CRYPTOGRAPHY-3338544
  • published3 Mar 2023
  • disclosed2 Mar 2023

Introduced: 2 Mar 2023

CVE-2020-25659  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 python2-cryptography to version 3.3.2-150200.16.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python2-cryptography package and not the python2-cryptography package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

python-cryptography 3.2 is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API, via timed processing of valid PKCS#1 v1.5 ciphertext.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1