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PYSEC-2008-8

Quick fix

PYSEC-2008-8 — paramiko: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'paramiko>=1.7.2'

Details

common.py in Paramiko 1.7.1 and earlier, when using threads or forked processes, does not properly use RandomPool, which allows one session to obtain sensitive information from another session by predicting the state of the pool.

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Affected packages

PyPI/paramiko
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.7.2
Fixpip install --upgrade 'paramiko>=1.7.2'

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