CVE-2020-36242

Summary

CVECVE-2020-36242
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-02-07 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:22:00 UTC
DescriptionIn the cryptography package before 3.3.2 for Python, certain sequences of update calls to symmetrically encrypt multi-GB values could result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow, as demonstrated by the Fernet class.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787 | CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cryptography Project Cryptography All All All All
Application Cryptography Project Cryptography All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment 1.10.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: python-cryptography-3.2.1-2.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
Comparing 3.3.1...3.3.2 · pyca/cryptography · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: python-cryptography-3.2.1-2.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Fernet fails to encrypt/decrypt large data · Issue #5615 · pyca/cryptography · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cryptography/CHANGELOG.rst at main · pyca/cryptography · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2022 N/A www.oracle.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159194 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-cryptography (ELSA-2021-1608)
  • 239330 Red Hat Update for python-cryptography (RHSA-2021:1608)
  • 239580 Red Hat Update for rh-python38 (RHSA-2021:3254)
  • 296067 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 33.94.0 Missing (CPUAPR2021)
  • 377334 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for python-cryptography (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0083)
  • 501475 Alpine Linux Security Update for py3-cryptography
  • 502338 Alpine Linux Security Update for py3-cryptography
  • 670494 EulerOS Security Update for python-cryptography (EulerOS-SA-2021-2252)
  • 670520 EulerOS Security Update for python-cryptography (EulerOS-SA-2021-2278)
  • 750342 OpenSUSE Security Update for python-cryptography (openSUSE-SU-2021:0349-1)
  • 753738 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors (SUSE-SU-2023:0604-1)
  • 754157 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for grpc, protobuf, python-Deprecated, python-PyGithub, python-aiocontextvars, python-avro, python-bcrypt, python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-google-api-core, pyt (SUSE-SU-2023:2783-1)
  • 754878 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for grpc, protobuf, python-DEPRECATED, python-PyGithub, python-aiocontextvars, python-avro, python-bcrypt, python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-google-api-core, pyt (SUSE-SU-2023:2783-2)
  • 900039 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for python-cryptography 2.3.1
  • 903166 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for python-cryptography (3875)
  • 940282 AlmaLinux Security Update for python-cryptography (ALSA-2021:1608)
  • 960766 Rocky Linux Security Update for python-cryptography (RLSA-2021:1608)
  • 981929 Python (pip) Security Update for cryptography (GHSA-rhm9-p9w5-fwm7)
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