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Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-20916: ELSA-2020-4432: python-pip security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-20916: ELSA-2020-4432: python-pip security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/16/2019
Created
11/14/2020
Added
11/12/2020
Modified
01/08/2025

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. A flaw was found in the pip package installer for Python when downloading or installing a remote package via a specified URL. Improper validation of the "Content-Disposition" HTTP response header makes a path traversal attack possible, leading to an arbitrary file overwrite. This flaw allows an attacker who controls a malicious server to execute arbitrary code on the system.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-babel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-platform-python-pip
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-attrs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-babel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-backports
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-backports-ssl-match-hostname
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-bson
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-chardet
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-coverage
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-cython
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-debug
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-dns
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-docs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-docs-info
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-docutils
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-funcsigs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-idna
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-ipaddress
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-jinja2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-lxml
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-markupsafe
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-mock
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-nose
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-numpy
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-numpy-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-numpy-f2py
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pip
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pip-wheel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pluggy
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-psycopg2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-psycopg2-debug
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-psycopg2-tests
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-py
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pygments
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pymongo
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pymongo-gridfs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pymysql
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pysocks
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pytest
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pytest-mock
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pytz
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-pyyaml
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-requests
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-rpm-macros
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-scipy
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-setuptools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-setuptools-scm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-setuptools-wheel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-six
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-sqlalchemy
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-test
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-tkinter
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-tools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-urllib3
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-virtualenv
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-wheel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python2-wheel-wheel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python3-pip
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python3-pip-wheel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-nose-docs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-psycopg2-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-sqlalchemy-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-virtualenv

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