CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-13404

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-07-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-07-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-552

Description

The MSI installer for Python through 2.7.16 on Windows defaults to the C:\Python27 directory, which makes it easier for local users to deploy Trojan horse code. (This also affects old 3.x releases before 3.5.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that it is the user's responsibility to ensure C:\Python27 access control or choose a different directory, because backwards compatibility requires that C:\Python27 remain the default for 2.7.x

Affected configurations

• python python (<= 2.7.16) • python python (>= 3.0.0 < 3.5.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties weakness

References