Bug 1214314 (CVE-2023-38898) - VUL-0: CVE-2023-38898: python,python39,python36,python3,python311,python310: An attacker can obtain sensitive information via the _asyncio._swap_current_task component
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-38898: python,python39,python36,python3,python311,python310: ...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2023-38898
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Matej Cepl
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/375459/
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Reported: 2023-08-16 07:25 UTC by Cathy Hu
Modified: 2023-08-16 07:46 UTC (History)
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Description Cathy Hu 2023-08-16 07:25:28 UTC 
CVE-2023-38898

An issue in Python cpython v.3.7 allows an attacker to obtain sensitive
information via the _asyncio._swap_current_task component.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-38898
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38898
http://python.com
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/105987
Comment 1 Cathy Hu 2023-08-16 07:27:14 UTC 
The issue was introduced with this commit: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a474e04388c2ef6aca75c26cb70a1b6200235feb

this is only in 3.12, which we dont have, so tracking all as not affected, closing
Comment 2 Daniel Garcia 2023-08-16 07:46:07 UTC 
We have python 3.12rc1 in Factory.