google-auth: cryptography lower bounds fail on Python 3.14 and allow vulnerable releases
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- Tech stack
- cryptography, python
- Domain
- build-system, security, testing
Research direction
Start in packages/google-auth/setup.py and compare its cryptography markers with testing/constraints-3.10.txt and testing/constraints-3.14.txt. Run cd packages/google-auth && nox -s unit-3.14, then verify the supported Python constraints select installable, non-vulnerable cryptography releases and the unit session completes.
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Summary of the issue
Context
Running google-auth unit tests with nox -s unit (or installing with the Python 3.14 constraints file) and reviewing the declared cryptography lower bounds.
Expected Behavior:
nox -s unit-3.14should install dependencies and run tests.- Declared
cryptographylower bounds should be installable on each supported Python version and should not include releases with known high-severity CVEs.
Actual Behavior:
- On Python 3.14, pip fails with
ResolutionImpossible.setup.pyrequirescryptography >= 41.0.5andtesting/constraints-3.14.txtpinscryptography==41.0.5, but 41.0.5 has no Python 3.14 wheels. - On Python 3.10–3.13, the lower bound is
cryptography >= 38.0.3, which still allows 41.0.5 and other releases affected by CVE-2023-49083 and CVE-2026-26007 (fixed in 41.0.6 and 46.0.5).
API client name and version
google-auth v2.57.0
Reproduction steps: code
Run unit-tests for google-auth in packages/google-auth:
cd packages/google-auth
nox -s unit-3.14
Reproduction steps: supporting files
N/A — reproduced from current main using packages/google-auth/setup.py and packages/google-auth/testing/constraints-3.14.txt.
Reproduction steps: actual results
ERROR: Cannot install None because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.
The conflict is caused by:
google-auth 2.57.0 depends on cryptography>=41.0.5; python_version >= "3.14"
The user requested (constraint) cryptography==41.0.5
Additionally, some packages in these conflicts have no matching distributions available for your environment:
cryptography
Reproduction steps: expected results
nox -s unit-3.14 creates the venv, installs google-auth with a cryptography version that has Python 3.14 wheels, and runs the unit tests.
OS & version + platform
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Python environment
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Python dependencies
N/A — install fails before tests run. Relevant pins from this repo:
setup.py:
cryptography >= 38.0.3; python_version < '3.14'
cryptography >= 41.0.5; python_version >= '3.14'
testing/constraints-3.10.txt: cryptography==38.0.3
testing/constraints-3.14.txt: cryptography==41.0.5
Additional context
Proposed fix:
- Python 3.10–3.13: require cryptography >= 46.0.5 (CVE-2026-26007).
- Python 3.14+: require cryptography >= 50.0.1 (first release with 3.14 wheels).
- Update testing/constraints-3.10.txt and testing/constraints-3.14.txt to those lower bounds.
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