CVE-2019-9948 (GCVE-0-2019-9948)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-23 17:07 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:10
VLAI
Summary
urllib in Python 2.x through 2.7.16 supports the local_file: scheme, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that blacklist file: URIs, as demonstrated by triggering a urllib.urlopen('local_file:///etc/passwd') call.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11842 x_refsource_MISC
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.