CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-8315

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-01-28 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-01-28
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

In Python (CPython) 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1, an insecure dependency load upon launch on Windows 7 may result in an attacker's copy of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll being loaded and used instead of the system's copy. Windows 8 and later are unaffected.

Affected configurations

• python python (>= 3.6.0 <= 3.6.10) • python python (>= 3.7.0 <= 3.7.6) • python python (>= 3.8.0 <= 3.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References