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Vulnerability details: VCID-4j5v-k162-tfgd
Vulnerability ID VCID-4j5v-k162-tfgd
Aliases GHSA-5cpq-8wj7-hf2v
GMS-2023-1778
Summary Vulnerable OpenSSL included in cryptography wheels pyca/cryptography's wheels include a statically linked copy of OpenSSL. The versions of OpenSSL included in cryptography 0.5-40.0.2 is vulnerable to a security issue. More details about the vulnerability itself can be found in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230530.txt. If you are building cryptography source ("sdist") then you are responsible for upgrading your copy of OpenSSL. Only users installing from wheels built by the cryptography project (i.e., those distributed on PyPI) need to update their cryptography versions.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 2.7
Risk 1.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
generic_textual LOW https://cryptography.io/en/latest/changelog/#v41-0-0
cvssv3.1_qr LOW https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cpq-8wj7-hf2v
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/pyca/cryptography
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/8708245ccdeaff21d65eea68a4f8d2a7c5949a22
cvssv3.1_qr LOW https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-5cpq-8wj7-hf2v
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-5cpq-8wj7-hf2v
Reference id Reference type URL
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/changelog/#v41-0-0
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/8708245ccdeaff21d65eea68a4f8d2a7c5949a22
GHSA-5cpq-8wj7-hf2v https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cpq-8wj7-hf2v
GHSA-5cpq-8wj7-hf2v https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-5cpq-8wj7-hf2v
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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T12:51:21.156865+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/pypi/cryptography/GMS-2023-1778.yml 38.0.0