Improper Authentication The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-pip  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-PYTHONPIP-295608
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed5 Nov 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2013-5123  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-pip package and not the python-pip package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The mirroring support (-M, --use-mirrors) in Python Pip before 1.5 uses insecure DNS querying and authenticity checks which allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.