CVE-2013-1629 Information

Description

pip before 1.3 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 \pip install\ operation.

Reference

http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.htmlchangelog http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17rfh7/warning_dont_use_pip_in_an_untrusted_network_a/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968059 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425 https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/791/files