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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-25659: Moderate: python-cryptography security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1608)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-25659: Moderate: python-cryptography security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1608)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/11/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-python3-cryptography

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