Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-1888

Title: Pypa Pip

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-1888.

CWE Category CWE-59
Published Date Aug 17, 2013
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.37%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

P
pypa 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105952.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105989.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106311.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/22/10 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/725 https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/734/files https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/780/files http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105952.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105989.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106311.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/22/10 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/725 https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/734/files https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/780/files
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-1888 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.