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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2013-5123)

Security fix for CVE-2013-5123

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
413681	SCA: security update for pip (GHSA-c5h8-cq4v-cvfm)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
413681	SCA: security update for pip (GHSA-c5h8-cq4v-cvfm)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
82976	Fedora 20 : python-virtualenv-12.0.7-1.fc20 (2015-6006)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
82973	Fedora 21 : python-virtualenv-12.0.7-1.fc21 (2015-5974)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

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CVE-2013-5123

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

medium

medium