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FKIE_CVE-2013-5123

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-11-05 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:58
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
The mirroring support (-M, --use-mirrors) in Python Pip before 1.5 uses insecure DNS querying and authenticity checks which allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155248.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155291.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/21/17Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/21/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77520Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-5123Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-5123Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-5123Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155248.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155291.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/21/17Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/21/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77520Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-5123Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-5123Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-5123Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pypa pip *
virtualenv virtualenv 12.0.7
fedoraproject fedora 20
fedoraproject fedora 21
redhat openshift 1.0
redhat openshift 2.0
redhat software_collections -
debian debian_linux 8.0
debian debian_linux 9.0
debian debian_linux 10.0
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