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GHSA-7P5P-7QQ5-CC86

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:17 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:17

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An issue was discovered in pip (all versions) because it installs the version with the highest version number, even if the user had intended to obtain a private package from a private index. This only affects use of the --extra-index-url option, and exploitation requires that the package does not already exist in the public index (and thus the attacker can put the package there with an arbitrary version number).

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  "id": "GHSA-7p5p-7qq5-cc86",
  "modified": "2022-05-24T17:17:28Z",
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CVE-2018-20225 (GCVE-0-2018-20225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-08 17:29 – Updated: 2026-04-15 20:50 Disputed

Summary

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

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	https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://cowlicks.website/posts/arbitrary-code-exe…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1adce79844…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835736	x_refsource_MISC

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GHSA-7P5P-7QQ5-CC86

CVE-2018-20225 (GCVE-0-2018-20225)

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