Security Advisory

CVE-2023-23931

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-02-07 20:54:03
Last updated 2025-11-03 21:47:19
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In affected versions `Cipher.update_into` would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol, but provide only immutable buffers. This would allow immutable objects (such as `bytes`) to be mutated, thus violating fundamental rules of Python and resulting in corrupted output. This now correctly raises an exception. This issue has been present since `update_into` was originally introduced in cryptography 1.8.