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HistoryDec 06, 2023 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : python-cryptography vulnerabilities (USN-6539-1)

2023-12-0600:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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10
ubuntu 20.04
ubuntu 22.04
ubuntu 23.04
ubuntu 23.10
python
cryptographic primitives
usn-6539-1
vulnerabilities
denial of service

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

29.1%

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6539-1 advisory.

  • cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In affected versions Cipher.update_into would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol, but provide only immutable buffers. This would allow immutable objects (such as bytes) to be mutated, thus violating fundamental rules of Python and resulting in corrupted output. This now correctly raises an exception. This issue has been present since update_into was originally introduced in cryptography 1.8.
    (CVE-2023-23931)

  • cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
    Calling load_pem_pkcs7_certificates or load_der_pkcs7_certificates could lead to a NULL-pointer dereference and segfault. Exploitation of this vulnerability poses a serious risk of Denial of Service (DoS) for any application attempting to deserialize a PKCS7 blob/certificate. The consequences extend to potential disruptions in system availability and stability. This vulnerability has been patched in version 41.0.6. (CVE-2023-49083)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6539-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(186623);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-23931", "CVE-2023-49083");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"6539-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : python-cryptography vulnerabilities (USN-6539-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6539-1 advisory.

  - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In
    affected versions `Cipher.update_into` would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol,
    but provide only immutable buffers. This would allow immutable objects (such as `bytes`) to be mutated,
    thus violating fundamental rules of Python and resulting in corrupted output. This now correctly raises an
    exception. This issue has been present since `update_into` was originally introduced in cryptography 1.8.
    (CVE-2023-23931)

  - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
    Calling `load_pem_pkcs7_certificates` or `load_der_pkcs7_certificates` could lead to a NULL-pointer
    dereference and segfault. Exploitation of this vulnerability poses a serious risk of Denial of Service
    (DoS) for any application attempting to deserialize a PKCS7 blob/certificate. The consequences extend to
    potential disruptions in system availability and stability. This vulnerability has been patched in version
    41.0.6. (CVE-2023-49083)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6539-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected python-cryptography and / or python3-cryptography packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-23931");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/02/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/12/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/12/06");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-cryptography");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-cryptography");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('20.04' >< os_release || '22.04' >< os_release || '23.04' >< os_release || '23.10' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 / 23.04 / 23.10', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'python-cryptography', 'pkgver': '2.8-3ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-cryptography', 'pkgver': '2.8-3ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-cryptography', 'pkgver': '3.4.8-1ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '23.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-cryptography', 'pkgver': '38.0.4-2ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '23.10', 'pkgname': 'python3-cryptography', 'pkgver': '38.0.4-4ubuntu0.23.10.1'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'python-cryptography / python3-cryptography');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linux23.10cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10
canonicalubuntu_linux20.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux23.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04
canonicalubuntu_linux22.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linuxpython3-cryptographyp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-cryptography
canonicalubuntu_linuxpython-cryptographyp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-cryptography

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

29.1%