Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8991

Title: Pypa Pip Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8991.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Nov 24, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

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-* file for another user.

Impacted Vendors

P
pypa 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/19/17 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/20/6 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71209 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725847 https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/2122 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/19/17 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/20/6 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71209 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725847 https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/2122
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:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8991 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 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:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.