Improper Input Validation Affecting python package, versions [3.5.0,3.5.10)[3.6.0,3.6.12)[3.7.0,3.7.9)[3.8.0, 3.8.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.18% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317713
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed13 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jul 2020

CVE-2019-20907  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 3.5.10, 3.6.12, 3.7.9, 3.8.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation when an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.

References

CVSS Scores

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