Ubuntu.comUB:CVE-2019-17514CVE-2019-17514
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
70.6%
library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has
potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as
demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the effects
of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it is likely that
security-relevant code elsewhere is affected. This issue is not a Python
implementation bug, and there are no reports that NMR researchers were
specifically relying on library/glob.html. In other words, because the
older documentation stated “finds all the pathnames matching a specified
pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell,” one might have
incorrectly inferred that the sorting that occurs in a Unix shell also
occurred for glob.glob. There is a workaround in newer versions of
Willoughby nmr-data_compilation-p2.py and nmr-data_compilation-p3.py, which
call sort() directly.
Bugs
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | this is a documentation change only, we will not be fixing this issue in Ubuntu 20.10. |
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | python2.7 | < 2.7.17-1~18.04ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | python2.7 | < 2.7.18-1~20.04.1 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | python2.7 | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | python2.7 | < 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm6) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | python2.7 | < 2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.12 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | python3.4 | < 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm7) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | python3.5 | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | python3.5 | < 3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.11 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | python3.6 | < 3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | python3.7 | < any | UNKNOWN |
References
github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L380
github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L405
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2019-17514
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17514
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216
pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216/suppl_file/ol9b03216_si_002.zip
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17514
twitter.com/chris_bloke/status/1181997278136958976
twitter.com/LucasCMoore/status/1181615421922824192
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4428-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4754-3
web.archive.org/web/20150822013622/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html
web.archive.org/web/20150906020027/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html
web.archive.org/web/20160309211341/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html
web.archive.org/web/20160526201356/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17514
www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies
Related
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
70.6%