Improper Authentication in pip
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 29, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 5, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Reviewed
Jul 7, 2022
Last updated
Jan 29, 2023
The mirroring support (-M, --use-mirrors) in Python Pip before 1.5 uses insecure DNS querying and authenticity checks which allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.
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