CVE-2024-5642: Buffer overread when using an empty list with SSLContext.set_npn_protocols()
Python Software Foundation · CPython
Vendor fix available · Affected: Python Software Foundation CPython · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 55% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
CPython 3.9 and earlier doesn't disallow configuring an empty list ("[]") for SSLContext.set_npn_protocols() which is an invalid value for the underlying OpenSSL API. This results in a buffer over-read when NPN is used (see CVE-2024-5535 for OpenSSL). This vulnerability is of low severity due to NPN being not widely used and specifying an empty list likely being uncommon in-practice (typically a protocol name would be configured).
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Python Software Foundation · CPythonbefore 3.9.24; from 3.10.0a1 before 3.10.0b1
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Published
- June 2024
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