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Cryptography CVE-2016-9243

HIGH
2017-03-27 secalert@redhat.com
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

1
CVE Published
Mar 27, 2017 - 17:59 cve.org
HIGH 7.5

Blast Radius

ecosystem impact
† from your stack dependencies † transitive graph · vuln.today resolves 4-path depth
  • 5 pypi packages depend on cryptography (4 direct, 1 indirect)

Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 1.5.3.

DescriptionCVE.org

HKDF in cryptography before 1.5.2 returns an empty byte-string if used with a length less than algorithm.digest_size.

AnalysisAI

HKDF in cryptography before 1.5.2 returns an empty byte-string if used with a length less than algorithm.digest_size. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Technical ContextAI

HKDF in cryptography before 1.5.2 returns an empty byte-string if used with a length less than algorithm.digest_size. Affected products include: Cryptography.Io Cryptography, Fedoraproject Fedora, Canonical Ubuntu Linux. Version information: before 1.5.2.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.

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