Issued:

2020-11-03

Updated:

2020-11-03

RHSA-2020:4432 - Moderate: python-pip security update

Synopsis

Moderate: python-pip security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for python-pip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

pip is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python. Many packages can be found in the Python Package Index (PyPI). pip is a recursive acronym that can stand for either "Pip Installs Packages" or "Pip Installs Python".

Security Fix(es):

• python-pip: directory traversal in _download_http_url() function in src/pip/_internal/download.py (CVE-2019-20916)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• python-pip-9.0.3-18.el8.src.rpm
• python3-pip-9.0.3-18.el8.noarch.rpm
• platform-python-pip-9.0.3-18.el8.noarch.rpm
• python3-pip-wheel-9.0.3-18.el8.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1868135

CVEs

• CVE-2019-20916

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/index

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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