CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2019-20916
High (7.5). EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in pip 19.2.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- opensuse:leap
- oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_network_function_cloud_native_environment
- oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_policy
- pypa:pip
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-gpvv-69j7-gwj8 | PyPI | pip | <19.2 | 19.2 |
| PYSEC-2020-173 | PyPI | pip | <19.2 | 19.2 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00010.html
- https://github.com/gzpan123/pip/commit/a4c735b14a62f9cb864533808ac63936704f2ace
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/compare/19.1.1...19.2
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6413