vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-25659: Covert Timing Channel

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 11, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-py3-cryptography
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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