CVE-2023-23931
Severity
6.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.87%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 7
Latest updateJan 15
Description
cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In affected versions `Cipher.update_into` would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol, but provide only immutable buffers. This would allow immutable objects (such as `bytes`) to be mutated, thus violating fundamental rules of Python and resulting in corrupted output. This now correctly raises an exception. This issue has been present since `update_into` was originally intr…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 2.5
Affected Packages5 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
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CVE-2023-23931: cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers↗2023-02-07
📋Vendor Advisories
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