HIGH 7.5 Microsoft
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 demonstrated by overwriting the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. This occurs in _download_http_url in _internal/download.py.
Microsoft Security Update 2020-Sep: 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.
Affected Products
- cm1 python-pip 19.2-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2019-20916
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20916
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2020-09-08 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 python-pip 19.2-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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