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CVE-2020-15141Path Traversal in openapi-python-client
- 3.0LowCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 33% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In openapi-python-client before version 0.5.3, there is a path traversal vulnerability. If a user generated a client using a maliciously crafted OpenAPI document, it is possible for generated files to be placed in arbitrary locations on disk.
Timeline
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By GitHub_M
- 50 days later
· 50 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 33% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.0.
Affected products
triaxtec · openapi-python-client
- affected < 0.5.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIopenapi-python-clientGHSA-7wgr-7666-7pwj (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/triaxtec/openapi-python-client/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#053---2020-08-13 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/triaxtec/openapi-python-client/security/advisories/GHSA-7wgr-7666-7pwj (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://pypi.org/project/openapi-python-client (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/triaxtec/openapi-python-client/commit/3e7dfae5d0b3685abf1ede1bc6c086a116ac4746 (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-2020-0121 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-7wgr-7666-7pwj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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