PyPi: Pip

CVE-2023-5752

Safety vulnerability ID: 62044

This vulnerability was reviewed by experts

The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Oct 25, 2023 Updated at Oct 27, 2024
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Advisory

Affected versions of Pip are vulnerable to Command Injection. When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial.

Affected package

pip

Latest version: 24.3.1

The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial. See CVE-2023-5752.


MISC:https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/12306: https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/12306
MISC:https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/F4PL35U6X4VVHZ5ILJU3PWUWN7H7LZXL/: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/F4PL35U6X4VVHZ5ILJU3PWUWN7H7LZXL/

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

LOW 3.3

CVSS v3 Details

LOW 3.3
Attack Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
LOW
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
LOW
Availability Availability (A)
NONE