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High RHSA-2020:4432 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: python-pip security update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::appstream python3-pip 0:9.0.3-18.el8
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos platform-python-pip 0:9.0.3-18.el8
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos python-pip 0:9.0.3-18.el8
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos python3-pip-wheel 0:9.0.3-18.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-20916

    Path Traversal in pip

    The pip package before 19.2 for Python allows Directory Traversal when a URL is given in an install command, because a Content-Disposition header can have ../ in a filename, as demonstrated by overwriting the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. This occurs in _d…

    python-pip pip python-pip Debian Ubuntu PyPI

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/index
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868135
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2020/rhsa-2020_4432.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20916
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20916
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20916