Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code Affecting python package, versions [3.0.0,3.6.13)[3.7.0,3.7.10)[3.8.0,3.8.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.76% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317656
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed22 Oct 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-27619  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-95  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 3.6.13, 3.7.10, 3.8.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code. In Python 3 through 3.9.0, the Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py CJK codec tests call eval() on content retrieved via HTTP.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1