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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-20916

CVE-2019-20916

Description

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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
pipPyPI
< 19.219.2

Affected products

268

Patches

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