CVE-2013-1633

HIGH8.3EPSS 0.77%

Setuptools vulnerable to Man-in-the-middle attacks

Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 10/22/2024

Description

easy_install in setuptools before 0.7 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 the default use of the product.

Affected packages (2)

PyPI/setuptoolsfrom 0, < 0.7
PyPI/setuptoolsfrom 0, < 0.7

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1633
PATCHhttps://github.com/pypa/setuptools
WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/setuptools/PYSEC-2013-22.yaml
WEBhttps://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.9.8#changes
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/