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CVE-2013-1629

Published: Aug 6, 2013

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

pip before 1.3 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 a "pip install" operation.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html

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https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425

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http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.html#changelog

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https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/791/files

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968059

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http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a/

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