CVE-2020-15801

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15801
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15801.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-15801
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-07-17T03:15:11Z
Modified
2026-09-10T14:34:30Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Python 3.8.4, sys.path restrictions specified in a python38._pth file are ignored, allowing code to be loaded from arbitrary locations. The ._pth file (e.g., the python._pth file) is not affected.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python/cpython

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python/cpython
Events
Introduced
1bf9cc509326bc42cd8cb1650eb9bf64550d817e
Fixed
13c94747c74437e594b7fc242ff7da668e81887c
Introduced
fa919fdf2583bdfead1df00e842f24f30b2a34bf
Fixed
580fbb018fd0844806119614d752b41fc69660f9
Database specific
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{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "3.7.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "3.7.9"
        },
        {
            "introduced":  "3.8.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "3.8.5"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15801.json"