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pyOpenSSL and Cryptography

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by reading setup.py and the two linked Snyk advisories to identify the vulnerable pyOpenSSL and cryptography pins. Update the dependency declarations and any other affected project metadata, then verify that no vulnerable versions remain.

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Description

Can you please update these in the setup.py and other bits as needed since they're pinned to vulnerable versions?

You can see the advisories here:

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYOPENSSL-7161590
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-CRYPTOGRAPHY-7161587

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Merged PRs (30d)
1

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