Security Advisory
CVE-2019-20916
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
The pip package before 19.2 for Python allows Directory Traversal when a URL is given in an install command, because a Content-Disposition header can have ../ in a filename, as demonstrated by overwriting the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. This occurs in _download_http_url in _internal/download.py.
Published Date
September 4, 2020
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory