CVE-2023-38325

python-cryptography: SSH certificate encoding/parsing incompatibility with OpenSSH

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 15, 2023

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

The cryptography package before 41.0.2 for Python mishandles SSH certificates that have critical options.

Statement

OpenSSH certificate parsing was introduced in python-cryptography v40.0.0 and fixed in upstream release v41.0.2. Since, Red Hat Enterprise Linux - 7, 8, 9 ships lower versions of python-cryptography (releases < v40.0.0), those are not affected by this CVE.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation