Untrusted Search Path Affecting python package, versions [3.7.0a1,3.7.9)[3.8.0a1,3.8.5)[3.9.0a1,3.9.0b5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317707
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed17 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 3.7.9, 3.8.5, 3.9.0b5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path. In Python 3.8.4, sys.path restrictions specified in a python38._pth file are ignored, allowing code to be loaded from arbitrary locations. The ._pth file (e.g., the python._pth file) is not affected.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1