GHSA-p28m-34f6-967qHighCVSS 8.1
PyOpenSSL Use-After-Free vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
It was discovered that pyOpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when handling X509 objects. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause pyOpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This attack appears to be exploitable via Depends on the calling application and if it retains a reference to the memory. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 17.5.0.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/pyopenssl:< 17.5.0
🔗 References (8)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000807
- https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/pull/723
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0085
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00014.html
- https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/commit/e73818600065821d588af475b024f4eb518c3509
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyopenssl/PYSEC-2018-23.yaml
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3813-1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p28m-34f6-967q