pypa/setuptools · Security
Setuptools vulnerable to Man-in-the-middle attacks
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-27x4-j476-jp5f
- CVE ID
- CVE-2013-1633
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
easy_install in setuptools before 0.7 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted response to the default use of the product.
CWEs
- CWE-319 · Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1633 ↗
- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.9.8#changes ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/setuptools/PYSEC-2013-22.yaml ↗
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-27x4-j476-jp5f ↗