Bug 1223417 (CVE-2024-33663)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-33663: python-python-jose: algorithm confusion with OpenSSH ECDSA keys and other key formats
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	IN_PROGRESS ---	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	camila.matos, mcepl, meissner
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/403209/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-33663:7.5:(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-04-26 11:02:02 UTC

python-jose through 3.3.0 has algorithm confusion with OpenSSH ECDSA keys and other key formats. This is similar to CVE-2022-29217.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-33663
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-33663
https://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose/issues/346
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277297

Comment 4 Daniel Garcia 2024-05-02 06:25:15 UTC

Upstream project looks a bit "unmaintained". There's also an old (May 2023) discussion about this in the fastapi github project [1], and other projects are replacing python-jose with pyJWT, it's something to consider.

[1] https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/discussions/9587

Comment 5 Daniel Garcia 2024-05-02 07:44:44 UTC

PR created upstream: https://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose/pull/349

Comment 6 OBSbugzilla Bot 2024-05-06 09:55:02 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1223417) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1172135 Factory / python-python-jose

Comment 9 OBSbugzilla Bot 2024-05-06 10:55:07 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1223417) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1172142 Backports:SLE-15-SP5 / python-python-jose

Comment 11 Marcus Meissner 2024-05-07 19:05:44 UTC

openSUSE-SU-2024:0118-1: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 1223417
CVE References: CVE-2024-33663
JIRA References: 
Sources used:
openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (src):    python-python-jose-3.0.1-bp155.3.3.1