Arbitrary Code Execution via Man-in-the-Middle Attack in PyShop

CVE-2013-1630 · MEDIUM Severity

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

pyshop before 0.7.1 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted response to a download operation.

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