Affected versions of Pip are vulnerable to Command Injection. When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial.

Versions of Pip prior to 19.2 are vulnerable to a directory traversal attack during the installation process from a URL. This vulnerability stems from improperly handling filenames in the Content-Disposition header that include path traversal sequences, potentially allowing unauthorized overwrite of critical files such as /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. The flaw is specifically found in the _download_http_url function within _internal/download.py.

A flaw was found in python-pip in the way it handled Unicode separators in git references. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to install a different revision on a repository. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

Pip 21.1 updates its dependency 'urllib3' to v1.26.4 due to security issues.

An issue was discovered in Pip (all versions) because it installs the version with the highest version number, even if the user had intended to obtain a private package from a private index. This only affects use of the --extra-index-url option, and exploitation requires that the package does not already exist in the public index (and thus the attacker can put the package there with an arbitrary version number). A warning was added about this behavior in version 21.1.
NOTE: it has been reported that this is intended functionality and the user is responsible for using --extra-index-url securely.

Pip solves a security vulnerability that previously allowed maliciously crafted wheel files to execute unauthorized code during installation.

Cryptography 39.0.1 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.0.8 to include security fixes.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/8229

Cryptography 39.0.1 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.0.8 to include security fixes.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/8229

Cryptography 39.0.1 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.0.8 to include security fixes.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/8229

Cryptography 41.0.0 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.1.1 to include a security fix.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/8708245ccdeaff21d65eea68a4f8d2a7c5949a22

Affected versions of Cryptography may allow a remote attacker to decrypt captured messages in TLS servers that use RSA key exchanges, which may lead to exposure of confidential or sensitive data.

Cryptography 41.0.3 updates its bundled OpenSSL version to include a fix for a Denial of Service vulnerability.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/bfa4d95f0f356f2d535efd5c775e0fb3efe90ef2
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230719.txt

Cryptography 3.3.2 includes a fix for CVE-2020-36242: certain sequences of update calls to symmetrically encrypt multi-GB values could result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow, as demonstrated by the Fernet class.

Cryptography 3.2 and prior are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API, via timed processing of valid PKCS#1 v1.5 ciphertext.

The cryptography library has updated its OpenSSL dependency in CI due to security concerns. This vulnerability arises when processing maliciously formatted PKCS12 files, which can cause OpenSSL to crash, leading to a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack. PKCS12 files, often containing certificates and keys, may come from untrusted sources. The PKCS12 specification allows certain fields to be NULL, but OpenSSL does not correctly handle these cases, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and subsequent crash. Applications using OpenSSL APIs, such as PKCS12_parse(), PKCS12_unpack_p7data(), PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata(), PKCS12_unpack_authsafes(), and PKCS12_newpass(), are vulnerable if they process PKCS12 files from untrusted sources. Although a similar issue in SMIME_write_PKCS7() was fixed, it is not considered significant for security as it pertains to data writing. This issue does not affect the FIPS modules in versions 3.2, 3.1, and 3.0.

Cryptography 2.1.3 updates Windows, macOS, and manylinux1 wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.0g, that includes security fixes.

Cryptography 2.1.3 updates Windows, macOS, and manylinux1 wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.0g, that includes security fixes.

The cryptography package before 41.0.2 for Python mishandles SSH certificates that have critical options.

Cryptography 39.0.1 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.0.8 to include security fixes.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/8229

Cryptography 39.0.1 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.0.8 to include security fixes.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/8229

Cryptography 39.0.1 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.0.8 to include security fixes.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/8229

Cryptography 39.0.1 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.0.8 to include security fixes.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/8229

Cryptography version 42.0.5 introduces a limit on the number of name constraint checks during X.509 path validation to prevent denial of service attacks.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/4be53bf20cc90cbac01f5f94c5d1aecc5289ba1f

Cryptography 41.0.3  updates its bundled OpenSSL version to include a fix for CVE-2023-2975: AES-SIV implementation ignores empty associated data entries.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/bfa4d95f0f356f2d535efd5c775e0fb3efe90ef2
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230714.txt

Cryptography 41.0.3 updates its bundled OpenSSL version to include a fix for a Denial of Service vulnerability.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/b22271cf3c3dd8dc8978f8f4b00b5c7060b6538d
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230731.txt

The `cryptography` library has updated its BoringSSL and OpenSSL dependencies in CI due to a security concern. Specifically, the issue involves the functions `EVP_PKEY_param_check()` and `EVP_PKEY_public_check()`, which are used to check DSA public keys or parameters. These functions can experience significant delays when processing excessively long DSA keys or parameters, potentially leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) if the input is from an untrusted source. The vulnerability arises because the key and parameter check functions do not limit the modulus size during checks, despite OpenSSL not allowing public keys with a modulus over 10,000 bits for signature verification. This issue affects applications that directly call these functions and the OpenSSL `pkey` and `pkeyparam` command-line applications with the `-check` option. The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not impacted, but the OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are affected by this vulnerability.

Cryptography 39.0.1 includes a fix for CVE-2022-3996, a DoS vulnerability affecting openssl.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/7940

Cryptography 41.0.5 updates Windows, macOS, and Linux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 3.1.4, that includes a security fix.

Cryptography 39.0.1 updates its dependency 'OpenSSL' to v3.0.8 to include security fixes.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/8229

Cryptography starting from version 42.0.0 updates its CI configurations to use newer versions of BoringSSL or OpenSSL as a countermeasure to CVE-2023-5678. This vulnerability, affecting the package, could cause Denial of Service through specific DH key generation and verification functions when given overly long parameters.

Cryptography 41.0.4 updates Windows, macOS, and Linux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 3.1.3, that includes a security fix.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/fc11bce6930e591ce26a2317b31b9ce2b3e25512

Cryptography 3.3 no longer allows loading of finite field Diffie-Hellman parameters of less than 512 bits in length. This change is to conform with an upcoming OpenSSL release that no longer supports smaller sizes. These keys were already wildly insecure and should not have been used in any application outside of testing.
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/5592

Pyyaml version 5.4 includes a fix for CVE-2020-14343: A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.4, where it is susceptible to arbitrary code execution when it processes untrusted YAML files through the full_load method or with the FullLoader loader. Applications that use the library to process untrusted input may be vulnerable to this flaw. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system by abusing the python/object/new constructor. This flaw is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-1747.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860466

Pyyaml 5.3.1 includes a fix for CVE-2020-1747: A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.3.1, where it is susceptible to arbitrary code execution when it processes untrusted YAML files through the full_load method or with the FullLoader loader. Applications that use the library to process untrusted input may be vulnerable to this flaw. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the system by abusing the python/object/new constructor.

Pyyaml before 4 uses ``yaml.load`` which has been assigned CVE-2017-18342.