RHEL 7 : python27 (RHSA-2020:4273)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4273 advisory. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level...

CVE-2019-20916: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

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/authorizedkeys file. This occurs in downloadhttpurl in internal/download.py...