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High 8.9
urllib3: HTTPResponse.stream()/read_chunked() buffers an unbounded chunk-size line into memory
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.10.3 until 2.8.0, the HTTPResponse.read_chunked and HTTPResponse.stream methods can allocate unbounded memory because the streaming chunk parser buffers the chunk-size field until newline or EOF without a l…
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Medium 6.9
urllib3: Chunked Deflate streaming can enter an infinite loop
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.2 until 2.8.0, HTTPResponse.stream and HTTPResponse.read_chunked can enter an infinite loop because the Deflate decoder retains trailing bytes as unconsumed input after reaching end-of-stream and repeated…
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High 7.6
urllib3: HTTPS proxy TLS configuration may be ignored or overridden
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.26.0 until 2.8.0, the proxy_ssl_context, proxy_assert_hostname, proxy_assert_fingerprint, ssl_context, cert_reqs, verify_mode, use_forwarding_for_https=True, and CERT_NONE configuration paths fail to remain…
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Medium 5.6
pip absolute path traversal during download from malicious package indexes
pip would incorrectly handle doubly-encoded package URLs from indexes allowing for files to be installed to arbitrary locations on disk even when installing wheels. This vulnerability requires downloading or installing a package from a malicious package index…
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High 7.5
MessagePack: Out-of-bounds read/crash on Unpacker reuse after caught error
MessagePack is the serializer implementation for Python msgpack.org. Prior to 1.2.1, there is an Out-of-bounds read/crash on Unpacker reuse after a caught error, potentially leading to a DoS attack. If the Unpacker is used repeatedly after an error occurs, th…
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Medium 6.9
Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Specially crafted inputs to idna.encode() can bypass CVE-2024-3651 fix
Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) for Python provides support for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) and Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing. In versions prior to 3.15, payloads such as `"\u0660" * N` or `"\u30fb" * N …
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Medium 4.1
pip can extract console_scripts and gui_scripts outside installation directory
pip would treat console_scripts and gui_scripts as paths instead of file names without sanitizing the resolved absolute path to the installation directory, leading to entry points being installed outside the installation directory.
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High 8.2
urllib3: Sensitive headers forwarded across origins in proxied low-level redirects
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.23 to before 2.7.0, cross-origin redirects followed from the low-level API via ProxyManager.connection_from_url().urlopen(..., assert_same_host=False) still forward these sensitive headers. This vulnerabili…
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High 8.9
urllib3: Decompression-bomb safeguards bypassed in parts of the streaming API
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.0 to before 2.7.0, urllib3 could decompress the whole response instead of the requested portion (1) during the second HTTPResponse.read(amt=N) call when the response was decompressed using the official Br…
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Medium 5.3
pip self-update functionality can import newly installed modules after wheel installation
pip prior to version 26.1 would run self-update check functionality after installing wheel files which required importing well-known Python modules names. These module imports were intentionally deferred to increase startup time of the pip CLI. The patch chan…
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Medium 4.6
pip doesn't reject concatenated ZIP and tar archives
pip handles concatenated tar and ZIP files as ZIP files regardless of filename or whether a file is both a tar and ZIP file. This behavior could result in confusing installation behavior, such as installing "incorrect" files according to the filename of the a…
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Medium 4.4CVE-2026-25645 Public exploit
Requests has Insecure Temp File Reuse in its extract_zipped_paths() utility function
Requests is a HTTP library. Prior to version 2.33.0, the `requests.utils.extract_zipped_paths()` utility function uses a predictable filename when extracting files from zip archives into the system temporary directory. If the target file already exists, it is…
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Low 2.0
Limited path traversal when installing wheel archives
When pip is installing and extracting a maliciously crafted wheel archive, files may be extracted outside the installation directory. The path traversal is limited to prefixes of the installation directory, thus isn't able to inject or overwrite executable fi…
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High 7.1CVE-2026-24049 Public exploit
wheel Allows Arbitrary File Permission Modification via Path Traversal
wheel is a command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files, as defined in PEP 427. In versions 0.40.0 through 0.46.1, the unpack function is vulnerable to file permission modification through mishandling of file permissions after extraction. The logic b…
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High 8.9
urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API)
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. urllib3's streaming API is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by reading the content in chunks, rather than loading the entire response body into memory at once. urllib3 can perform decodi…
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High 8.9
urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.0 and prior to 2.6.0, the Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data. urllib3's streaming API is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by readi…
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High 8.9
urllib3 allows an unbounded number of links in the decompression chain
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.24 and prior to 2.6.0, the number of links in the decompression chain was unbounded allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps leadin…
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Medium 5.9
Fallback tar extraction in pip doesn't check symbolic links point to extraction directory
When extracting a tar archive pip may not check symbolic links point into the extraction directory if the tarfile module doesn't implement PEP 706. Note that upgrading pip to a "fixed" version for this vulnerability doesn't fix all known vulnerabilities that …
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Medium 5.3
urllib3 redirects are not disabled when retries are disabled on PoolManager instantiation
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 2.5.0, it is possible to disable redirects for all requests by instantiating a PoolManager and specifying retries in a way that disable redirects. By default, requests and botocore users are …
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Medium 5.3
Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs
Requests is a HTTP library. Due to a URL parsing issue, Requests releases prior to 2.32.4 may leak .netrc credentials to third parties for specific maliciously-crafted URLs. Users should upgrade to version 2.32.4 to receive a fix. For older versions of Reques…
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High 7.7CVE-2025-47273 Public exploit
setuptools has a path traversal vulnerability in PackageIndex.download that leads to Arbitrary File Write
setuptools is a package that allows users to download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages. A path traversal vulnerability in `PackageIndex` is present in setuptools prior to version 78.1.1. An attacker would be allowed to write files to ar…
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High 8.8
Remote Code Execution in pypa/setuptools
A vulnerability in the package_index module of pypa/setuptools versions up to 69.1.1 allows for remote code execution via its download functions. These functions, which are used to download packages from URLs provided by users or retrieved from package index …
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Medium 6.2CVE-2024-3651 Public exploit
Denial of Service via Quadratic Complexity in kjd/idna
A vulnerability was identified in the kjd/idna library, specifically within the `idna.encode()` function, affecting version 3.6. The issue arises from the function's handling of crafted input strings, which can lead to quadratic complexity and consequently, a…
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Medium 4.4
Proxy-Authorization request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects in urllib3
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. When using urllib3's proxy support with `ProxyManager`, the `Proxy-Authorization` header is only sent to the configured proxy, as expected. However, when sending HTTP requests *without* using urllib3'…
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Medium 5.6
Requests `Session` object does not verify requests after making first request with verify=False
Requests is a HTTP library. Prior to 2.32.0, when making requests through a Requests `Session`, if the first request is made with `verify=False` to disable cert verification, all subsequent requests to the same host will continue to ignore cert verification r…
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Medium 4.2
Request body not stripped after redirect in urllib3
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. urllib3 previously wouldn't remove the HTTP request body when an HTTP redirect response using status 301, 302, or 303 after the request had its method changed from one that could accept a request body…
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Medium 6.1
Authorization Header forwarded on redirect
urllib3 before 1.24.2 does not remove the authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect (i.e., a redirect that differs in host, port, or scheme). This can allow for credentials in the authorization header to be exposed to unintended hosts o…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2023-43804 Public exploit
`Cookie` HTTP header isn't stripped on cross-origin redirects
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. urllib3 doesn't treat the `Cookie` HTTP header special or provide any helpers for managing cookies over HTTP, that is the responsibility of the user. However, it is possible for a user to specify a `C…
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High 7.5
Certifi's removal of e-Tugra root certificate
Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi prior to version 2023.07.22 recognizes "e-Tugra" root certificates. e-Tugra's root certificates were…
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-32681 Public exploit
Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header in requests
Requests is a HTTP library. Since Requests 2.3.0, Requests has been leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers when redirected to an HTTPS endpoint. This is a product of how we use `rebuild_proxies` to reattach the `Proxy-Authorization` header…
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High 7.5
pypa/wheel vulnerable to Regular Expression denial of service (ReDoS)
An issue discovered in Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Wheel 0.37.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via attacker controlled input to wheel cli.
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Medium 5.9
pypa/setuptools vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or custom PackageIndex page. There is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py.
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Medium 5.7CVE-2021-3572 Public exploit
Improper Input Validation in pip
A flaw was found in python-pip in the way it handled Unicode separators in git references. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to install a different revision on a repository. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This i…
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High 7.5
Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser when passed URL containing many @ characters
An issue was discovered in urllib3 before 1.26.5. When provided with a URL containing many @ characters in the authority component, the authority regular expression exhibits catastrophic backtracking, causing a denial of service if a URL were passed as a para…
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Medium 6.5
CRLF injection in urllib3
urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(). NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2020-26116.
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High 7.5
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…
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High 7.8CVE-2018-20225 Public exploit
An issue was discovered in pip (all versions) because it installs the version with the highest version number, even if …
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High 7.5CVE-2018-18074 Public exploit
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Requests
The Requests package before 2.20.0 for Python sends an HTTP Authorization header to an http URI upon receiving a same-hostname https-to-http redirect, which makes it easier for remote attackers to discover credentials by sniffing the network.
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Medium 6.2
pip lack of randomness in build directory
pip 1.3 through 1.5.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of package installation) by creating a /tmp/pip-build-* file for another user.