CVE-2013-1629
HIGH8.4EPSS 39.9%Improper Input Validation in pip
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1629
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 packages (4)
- Debian/python-pipfrom 0, < 1.3.1-1
- Debian/python-virtualenvfrom 0, < 1.9.1-1
- PyPI/pipfrom 0, < 1.3
- PyPI/pipfrom 0, < 1.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (12)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g3p5-fjj9-h8gj
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1629
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1629
- PATCHhttps://github.com/pypa/pip
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968059
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pip/PYSEC-2013-8.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/791/files
- WEBhttp://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html
- WEBhttp://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.html#changelog
- WEBhttp://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a
- WEBhttp://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a/