CVE-2013-1630

Advisory

pyshop before 0.7.1 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 a download operation.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

pyshop before 0.7.1 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 a download operation.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1630
• http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a/
• https://github.com/mardiros/pyshop/blob/master/CHANGES.txt
• https://github.com/mardiros/pyshop/commit/ffadb0bcdef1e385884571670210cfd6ba351784