CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2019-17514

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.

5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://web.archive.org/web/20150906020027/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html Vendor Advisory
https://web.archive.org/web/20160309211341/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L405 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.python.org/issue33275 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L380 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216 Third Party Advisory
https://web.archive.org/web/20160526201356/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html Vendor Advisory
https://web.archive.org/web/20150822013622/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html Vendor Advisory
https://twitter.com/LucasCMoore/status/1181615421922824192 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216/suppl_file/ol9b03216_si_002.zip Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/chris_bloke/status/1181997278136958976 Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191107-0005/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4428-1/
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.8.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2019-10-12 01:15

Updated : 2020-07-27 06:15

NVD link : CVE-2019-17514

Mitre link : CVE-2019-17514

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-682

NVD-CWE-noinfo