Description
pip before 1.3 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 "pip install" operation.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425 ↗
- http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.html#changelog ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/791/files ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968059 ↗
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a/ ↗