QID 750667

QID 750667: SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-PyJWT (SUSE-SU-2021:2010-1)

This update for python-pyjwt fixes the following issues: python-jwt was updated to 1.5.3. (
Bsc#1186173) update to version 1.5.3: * changed + increase required version of the cryptography package to >=1.4.0.
* fixed + remove uses of deprecated functions from the cryptography package.
+ warn about missing algorithms param to decode() only when verify param is true #281 update to version 1.5.2: - ensure correct arguments order in decode super call [7c1e61d][7c1e61d] - change optparse for argparse. [#
238][238] - guard against pkcs1 pem encododed public keys [#277][277] - add deprecation warning when decoding without specifying `algorithms` [#277][277] - improve deprecation messages [#270][270] - pyjwt.decode: move verify param into options [#271][271] - support for python 3.6 [#262][262] - expose jwt.
Invalidalgorithmerror [#264][264] - add support for ecdsa public keys in rfc 4253 (openssh) format [#244][244] - renamed commandline script `jwt` to `jwt-cli` to avoid issues with the script clobbering the `jwt` module in some circumstances. [#
187][187] - better error messages when using an algorithm that requires the cryptography package, but it isn't available [#230][230] - tokens with future 'iat' values are no longer rejected [#190][190] - non-numeric 'iat' values now raise invalidissuedaterror instead of decodeerror - remove rejection of future 'iat' claims [#252][252] - add back 'es512' for backward compatibility (for now) [#225][225] - fix incorrectly named ecdsa algorithm [#219][219] - fix rpm build [#196][196] - add jwk support for hmac and rsa keys [#202][202]

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Successful exploitation allows attacker to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.2 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest package which contains the patch. To install this SUSE Security, Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product. To install packages using the command line interface, use command "yum update". Refer to Suse security advisory: SUSE-SU-2021:2010-1 to address this issue and obtain further details.

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