Design/Logic Flaw

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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-5123

The mirroring support -M, --use-mirrors in Python Pip before 1.5 uses insecure DNS querying and authenticity checks which allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks...