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CVE-2013-1629
pip before 1.3 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package contents, which…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 6.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.2% · top 6.4% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References6
- http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.html#changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/791/files (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968059 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-0025 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g3p5-fjj9-h8gj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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