Vulmon
Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2349
Advisory Release Date: 2023-11-29 22:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-12-04 21:44 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install
hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could
be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone"
call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify
how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not
affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial. (CVE-2023-5752)
Affected Packages:
python-pip
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-pip to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
python2-pip-20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.5.noarch
python3-pip-20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.5.noarch
python-pip-wheel-20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.5.noarch
src:
python-pip-20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.5.src