Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Affecting tkinter package, versions <0:2.7.5-34.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
5.66% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TKINTER-5053271
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Jun 2014

Introduced: 23 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-4650  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-138  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tkinter to version 0:2.7.5-34.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:2101.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tkinter package and not the tkinter package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The CGIHTTPServer module in Python 2.7.5 and 3.3.4 does not properly handle URLs in which URL encoding is used for path separators, which allows remote attackers to read script source code or conduct directory traversal attacks and execute unintended code via a crafted character sequence, as demonstrated by a %2f separator.

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