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SUSE: 2021:2022-1 Moderate: Python-PyJWT Security Vulnerability Resolution

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2021
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SUSE Security Update for python-PyJWT resolves a moderate vulnerability linked to a recent update. Detailed installation guidelines are provided.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for python-PyJWT fixes the following issues: python-JWT was updated to 1.5.3. (bsc#1186173) update to version 1.5.3: * Changed + Increase required version of the cryptography package to >=1.4.0. * Fixed + Remove uses of deprecated functions from the cryptography package. + Warn about missing algorithms param to decode() only when verify param is True #281 update to version 1.5.2: - Ensure correct arguments order in decode super call [7c1e61d][7c1e61d] - Change optparse for argparse. [#238][238] - Guard against PKCS1 PEM encododed public keys [#277][277] - Add deprecation warning when decoding without specifying `algorithms` [#277][277] - Improve deprecation messages [#270][270] - PyJWT.decode: move verify param into options [#271][271] - Support for Python 3.6 [#262][262]

References

#1186173

Cross- CVE-2017-12880

CVSS scores:

CVE-2017-12880 (SUSE): 8.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12880.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186173

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:2010-1
Rating: moderate

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