python CVE-2020-25658 and python-rsa

What happened (please include outputs or screenshots):

Security scanners such as Sonatype suggest that : -

It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks. An attacker can use this flaw via the RSA decryption API to decrypt parts of the cipher text encrypted with RSA.

This ties up with CVE-2020-25658 which has been updated with: -

This vulnerability has been modified since it was last analyzed by the NVD. It is awaiting reanalysis which may result in further changes to the information provided.

I think that kubernetes/python includes python-rsa ??

Looking at one of my environments via pipdeptree I see : -

...
kubernetes==26.1.0
  - certifi [required: >=14.05.14, installed: 2023.5.7]
  - google-auth [required: >=1.0.1, installed: 2.17.3]
    - cachetools [required: >=2.0.0,<6.0, installed: 5.3.0]
    - pyasn1-modules [required: >=0.2.1, installed: 0.2.1]
    - rsa [required: >=3.1.4,<5, installed: 4.9]
      - pyasn1 [required: >=0.1.3, installed: 0.4.2]
    - six [required: >=1.9.0, installed: 1.14.0]
  - python-dateutil [required: >=2.5.3, installed: 2.8.2]
    - six [required: >=1.5, installed: 1.14.0]
  - pyyaml [required: >=5.4.1, installed: 6.0]
  - requests [required: Any, installed: 2.22.0]
  - requests-oauthlib [required: Any, installed: 1.3.1]
    - oauthlib [required: >=3.0.0, installed: 3.1.0]
    - requests [required: >=2.0.0, installed: 2.22.0]
  - setuptools [required: >=21.0.0, installed: 67.7.2]
  - six [required: >=1.9.0, installed: 1.14.0]
  - urllib3 [required: >=1.24.2, installed: 1.25.8]
  - websocket-client [required: >=0.32.0,!=0.42.*,!=0.41.*,!=0.40.0, installed: 1.5.1]
...

and, from another environment, where I'd previously cloned this repo and run pip3 install -r requirements.txt, I see: -

pipdeptree

...
google-auth==2.17.3
  - cachetools [required: >=2.0.0,<6.0, installed: 5.3.0]
  - pyasn1-modules [required: >=0.2.1, installed: 0.2.1]
  - rsa [required: >=3.1.4,<5, installed: 4.9]
    - pyasn1 [required: >=0.1.3, installed: 0.4.8]
  - six [required: >=1.9.0, installed: 1.16.0]
...

There is an issue - CVE-2020-25658 - Bleichenbacher-style timing oracle in PKCS#1 v1.5 decryption code #165 - which is closed.

A few months back, the CVE etc. were updated to suggest that rsa:4.7 mitigates the issue; this appears to have changed, and the latest version - 4.9 - is being reported as being vulnerable.

Apologies if my understanding is incorrect 😢

IF kubernetes does make use of python-rsa, is there any plan to move away from this, given the potential of this vulnerability ?

Environment:

python3 --version

Python 3.8.10

pip --version

pip 23.1.2 from /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)

May 09 '23 17:05 davidhay1969

This library uses google-auth. It seems to me that the vulnerability needs to be fixed in google-auth

May 24 '23 17:05 roycaihw

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