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CVE-2013-1888
pip before 1.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in the /tmp/pip-build temporary directory.
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.38%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 68% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
pip before 1.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in the /tmp/pip-build temporary directory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 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 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.38% · top 68% 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: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References7
- [oss-security] 20130322 Re: CVE Request: python-pip insecure temporary directory handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-8221 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/734/files (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/780/files (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-8193 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/725 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-8166 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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-2013-0026 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4gv5-qhvr-36vv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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