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Vulnerability details: VCID-a1m5-12w5-sffd
Vulnerability ID VCID-a1m5-12w5-sffd
Aliases PYSEC-2020-192
Summary The pip package before 19.2 for Python allows Directory Traversal when a URL is given in an install command, because a Content-Disposition header can have ../ in a filename, as demonstrated by overwriting the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. This occurs in _download_http_url in _internal/download.py.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
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No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T15:02:13.262971+00:00 PyPI Importer Import https://osv-vulnerabilities.storage.googleapis.com/PyPI/all.zip 38.0.0