cvelist/2018/20xxx/CVE-2018-20225.json

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        "ID": "CVE-2018-20225",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
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                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "An issue was discovered in pip (all versions) because it installs the version with the highest version number, even if the user had intended to obtain a private package from a private index. This only affects use of the --extra-index-url option, and exploitation requires that the package does not already exist in the public index (and thus the attacker can put the package there with an arbitrary version number)."
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            {
                "url": "https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "name": "https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/"
            },
            {
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "name": "https://cowlicks.website/posts/arbitrary-code-execution-from-pips-extra-index-url.html",
                "url": "https://cowlicks.website/posts/arbitrary-code-execution-from-pips-extra-index-url.html"
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