CVE-2022-23491

Description

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.

How to fix CVE-2022-23491

To remediate CVE-2022-23491, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —no fix listed
• —upgrade to 2022.12.07 or later
• —upgrade to 2022.12.7 or later

Is CVE-2022-23491 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (3)

• from 0
• >= 2017.11.05, < 2022.12.07
• >= 2017.11.5, < 2022.12.7

CVSS scores

References (8)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23491
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-23491
• PATCHgithub.com/certifi/python-certifi
• WEBgithub.com/certifi/python-certifi/commit/9e9e840925d7b8e76c76fdac1fab7e6e88c1c3b8