Directory Traversal Affecting python3 package, versions <3.6.12-3.75.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.03% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-PYTHON3-2688136
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed19 Feb 2021

Introduced: 19 Feb 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 python3 to version 3.6.12-3.75.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3 package and not the python3 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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