Vulnerability in Pypa Pip
CVE-2013-1888
pip before 1.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in the /tmp/pip-build temporary directory.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (28.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 29th percentile — 28.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Pypa Pip
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 17, 18, 19
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/22/10 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105989.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/pypa/pip/pull/734/files (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/pypa/pip/pull/780/files (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105952.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/pypa/pip/issues/725 (Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106311.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)