CVE-2019-17514
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17514
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-17514.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-17514
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2019-10-12T13:15:10.790Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-09T06:36:32.319081Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the effects of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it is likely that security-relevant code elsewhere is affected. This issue is not a Python implementation bug, and there are no reports that NMR researchers were specifically relying on library/glob.html. In other words, because the older documentation stated "finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell," one might have incorrectly inferred that the sorting that occurs in a Unix shell also occurred for glob.glob. There is a workaround in newer versions of Willoughby nmr-datacompilation-p2.py and nmr-datacompilation-p3.py, which call sort() directly.
- References
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- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4428-1/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160526201356/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216/suppl_file/ol9b03216_si_002.zip
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150906020027/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191107-0005/
- https://twitter.com/chris_bloke/status/1181997278136958976
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150822013622/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160309211341/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html
- https://bugs.python.org/issue33275
- https://twitter.com/LucasCMoore/status/1181615421922824192
- https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L405
- https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L380
Affected packages
Git / github.com/python/cpython
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/python/cpython
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedIntroduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedIntroduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "versions": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "3.6.0-NA" }, { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "3.7.0-NA" }, { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "3.8.0-NA" } ] }