CVE-2024-39689

Description

Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi starting in 2021.5.30 and prior to 2024.7.4 recognized root certificates from `GLOBALTRUST`. Certifi 2024.7.04 removes root certificates from `GLOBALTRUST` from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust store. `GLOBALTRUST`'s root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation which identified "long-running and unresolved compliance issues."

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Why is this CVE negligible priority?

Use of bundled CA certificates is patched out in Ubuntu

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
python-certifi	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
python-pip	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

On focal and earlier, the python-pip package bundles python-certifi binaries when built. After updating python-certifi, a no-change rebuild of python-pip is required. On jammy and later, python-certifi is bundled in the python-pip package and needs to be patched. In Debian and Ubuntu, the python-certifi packages are patched to return the location of the system CA certs provided by the ca-certificates package. While the source and binary packages do contain the ca certificates, they are not used by anything.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
python-certifi	Upstream: bd81538

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N