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CVE-2014-8991
pip 1.3 through 1.5.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of package installation) by creating a /tmp/pip-build-*…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 67% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
pip 1.3 through 1.5.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of package installation) by creating a /tmp/pip-build-* file for another user.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (9 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
6
- [oss-security] 20141117 Requesting a CVE for pip - Local DoS with predictable temp directory names (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725847 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 71209 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141120 Re: Requesting a CVE for pip - Local DoS with predictable temp directory names (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/2122 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2014-0044 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-53mr-44pp-crf4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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