CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1629
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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.
Affected configurations
• pypa pip (< 1.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.html#changelog Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968059 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/791/files Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.html#changelog Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968059 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/791/files Patch, Third Party Advisory