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Medium 6.5Published Feb 7, 2023

CVE-2023-23931cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In affected versions `Cipher.update_into` would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol, but provide only immutable buffers. This would allow immutable objects (such as `bytes`) to be mutated, thus violating fundamental rules of Python and resulting in corrupted output. This now correctly raises an exception. This issue has been present since `update_into` was originally introduced in cryptography 1.8.

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CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-754
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Not given
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
cryptography.io cryptography
cryptography.io:cryptography
from 1.8 before 39.0.1
NVD

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