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Ubuntu: USN-4613-1 (CVE-2020-25659): python-cryptography vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4613-1 (CVE-2020-25659): python-cryptography vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/03/2020
Created
11/06/2020
Added
11/04/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-cryptography
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-cryptography

References

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