Directory Traversal Affecting python3-dbm package, versions <3.6.12-3.64.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-PYTHON3DBM-2694315
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed2 Dec 2020

Introduced: 2 Dec 2020

CVE-2019-20916  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 python3-dbm to version 3.6.12-3.64.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-dbm package and not the python3-dbm package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1