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PYSEC-2022-42986

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2022-12-07 22:15 - Updated: 2023-05-04 03:49

Details

Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "TrustCor" from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust store. TrustCor's root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation prompted by media reporting that TrustCor's ownership also operated a business that produced spyware. Conclusions of Mozilla's investigation can be found in the linked google group discussion.

Impacted products

Name	purl
certifi	pkg:pypi/certifi

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      "package": {
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        "name": "certifi",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/certifi"
      },
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        }
      ],
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        "2018.1.18",
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        "2018.11.29",
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        "2018.8.13",
        "2018.8.24",
        "2019.11.28",
        "2019.3.9",
        "2019.6.16",
        "2019.9.11",
        "2020.11.8",
        "2020.12.5",
        "2020.4.5",
        "2020.4.5.1",
        "2020.4.5.2",
        "2020.6.20",
        "2021.10.8",
        "2021.5.30",
        "2022.5.18",
        "2022.5.18.1",
        "2022.6.15",
        "2022.6.15.1",
        "2022.6.15.2",
        "2022.9.14",
        "2022.9.24"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "CVE-2022-23491",
    "GHSA-43fp-rhv2-5gv8"
  ],
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  "id": "PYSEC-2022-42986",
  "modified": "2023-05-04T03:49:45.039819Z",
  "published": "2022-12-07T22:15:00Z",
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
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    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/security/advisories/GHSA-43fp-rhv2-5gv8"
    }
  ]
}

CVE-2022-23491 (GCVE-0-2022-23491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-07 21:15 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:31

Title

Removal of TrustCor root certificate

Summary

Severity

6.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:52 UTC

CWE

CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/securit…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-sec…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023022…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
certifi	python-certifi	Affected: < 2022.12.07

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GHSA-43FP-RHV2-5GV8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-07 23:05 – Updated: 2025-02-12 18:33

Summary

Certifi removing TrustCor root certificate

Details

Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "TrustCor" from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust store.

TrustCor's root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation prompted by media reporting that TrustCor's ownership also operated a business that produced spyware. Conclusions of Mozilla's investigation can be found here.

Severity

6.8 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

5.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "certifi"
      },
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            {
              "introduced": "2017.11.05"
            },
            {
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            }
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        }
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    }
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    "nvd_published_at": "2022-12-07T22:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-43fp-rhv2-5gv8",
  "modified": "2025-02-12T18:33:24Z",
  "published": "2022-12-07T23:05:18Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/security/advisories/GHSA-43fp-rhv2-5gv8"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23491"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/commit/9e9e840925d7b8e76c76fdac1fab7e6e88c1c3b8"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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GHSA-43FP-RHV2-5GV8

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