Directory Traversal Affecting python-devel package, versions <2.7.17-7.52.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.88% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-PYTHONDEVEL-2689755
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed9 Feb 2021

Introduced: 9 Feb 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 python-devel to version 2.7.17-7.52.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-devel package and not the python-devel 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 Scores

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