SCA: security update for pip (GHSA-gpvv-69j7-gwj8)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415244

Description

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

- 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.
(CVE-2019-20916)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gpvv-69j7-gwj8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415244

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20916

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20916

cwe: CWE-22