CVE-2023-40217

Python ssl.SSLSocket is vulnerable to a bypass of the TLS handshake in certain instances for HTTPS servers and other server-side protocols that use TLS client authentication such as mTLS. This issue may result in a breach of integrity as its possible to modify or delete resources that are authenticated only by a TLS certificate. No breach of confidentiality is possible.

Versions of python36:3.6/python36 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 are marked as 'Not affected' as they just provide "symlinks" to the main python3 component, which provides the actual interpreter of the Python programming language.

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