CVE-2023-40217

Name
CVE-2023-40217
Description
An issue was discovered in Python before 3.8.18, 3.9.x before 3.9.18, 3.10.x before 3.10.13, and 3.11.x before 3.11.5. It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly, there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as "not connected" and won't initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the buffer. (The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.)
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
CONFIRM https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/PEPLII27KYHLF4AK3ZQGKYNCRERG4YXY/
MISC https://www.python.org/dev/security/
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00022.html
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0014/
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00017.html
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce%40python.org/thread/PEPLII27KYHLF4AK3ZQGKYNCRERG4YXY/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* python >= 3.11.0 < 3.11.5
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* python >= 3.10.0 < 3.10.13
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* python >= 3.9.0 < 3.9.18
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* python >= None < 3.8.18

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
python3 3.15-main 3.9.18-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed