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gentooGentoo FoundationGLSA-201310-09
HistoryOct 10, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

Setuptools: Man-in-the-Middle attack

2013-10-1000:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
15

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

51.7%

Background

Setuptools is a manager for Python packages.

Description

Setuptools does not check the integrity of downloaded Python packages.

Impact

A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Setuptools users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/setuptools-0.8-r1"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyalldev-python/setuptools< 0.8-r1UNKNOWN

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

51.7%