USN-4601-1

It was discovered that pip did not properly sanitize the filename during pip install. A remote attacker could possible use this issue to read and write arbitrary files on the host filesystem as root, resulting in a directory traversal attack. (CVE-2019-20916)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / python-pip

Package

Name: python-pip
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/python-pip@9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.4?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.4

Affected versions

9.*

9.0.1-2

9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1

9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.1

9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.2

9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.4",
            "binary_name": "python-pip"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.4",
            "binary_name": "python-pip-whl"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.4",
            "binary_name": "python3-pip"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2019-20916",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4601-1.json"