1.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2011-4944

Published: 27/08/2012 Updated: 25/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 169
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Python 2.6 up to and including 3.2 creates ~/.pypirc with world-readable permissions before changing them after data has been written, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to obtain a username and password by reading this file.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #615118 python26: distutils creates pypirc insecurely Package: python26; Maintainer for python26 is (unknown); Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debianorg> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:09:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: security Found in version python26/266-8 Fixed in version python26/268-1 ...
Synopsis Moderate: python security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated python packages that fix multiple security issues are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact Common Vulnerability ...
Synopsis Moderate: python security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated python packages that fix multiple security issues are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact Common Vulnerability ...
A denial of service flaw was found in the implementation of associative arrays (dictionaries) in Python An attacker able to supply a large number of inputs to a Python application (such as HTTP POST request parameters sent to a web application) that are used as keys when inserting data into an array could trigger multiple hash function collisions, ...
Several security issues were fixed in Python 27 ...
Several security issues were fixed in Python 32 ...
Several security issues were fixed in Python 24 ...
Several security issues were fixed in Python 31 ...
Several security issues were fixed in Python 25 ...
Several security issues were fixed in Python 26 ...