CVE-2013-1629

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.

References

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3