CVE-2019-13404

Advisory

The MSI installer for Python through 2.7.16 on Windows defaults to the C:\Python27 directory, which makes it easier for local users to deploy Trojan horse code: a privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue also affects old 3.x releases before 3.5.
NOTE: the vendor's position is that it is the user's responsibility to ensure C:\Python27 access control or choose a different directory because backwards compatibility requires that C:\Python27 remain the default for 2.7.x.

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Resources

• https://docs.python.org/2/faq/windows.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13404
• https://github.com/alidnf/CVE-2019-13404/blob/master/exploit.c