High severity · published Sep 4, 2020
CVE-2019-20916
The pip package before 19.2 for Python allows Directory Traversal when a URL is given in an install command, because a Content-Disposition header can have ../ in a filename, as…
7.5
CVSS
3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The pip package before 19.2 for Python allows Directory Traversal when a URL is given in an install command, because a Content-Disposition header can have ../ in a filename, as demonstrated by overwriting the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. This occurs in _download_http_url in _internal/download.py.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.0% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CC
Communications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment · Oracle
1.10.0; 22.1.0 · source: NVD
CC
Communications Cloud Native Core Policy · Oracle
1.15.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
PI
Pip · Pypa
before 19.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20916
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20916
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00005.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00010.html
Patch
https://github.com/gzpan123/pip/commit/a4c735b14a62f9cb864533808ac63936704f2ace
Patch
https://github.com/pypa/pip/compare/19.1.1...19.2
Exploit
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6413
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00010.html
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