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CVE-2017-1000246 (GCVE-0-2017-1000246)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-17 04:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:04
VLAI
Summary
Python package pysaml2 version 4.4.0 and earlier reuses the initialization vector across encryptions in the IDP server, resulting in weak encryption of data.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/issues/417 x_refsource_MISC
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