CVE-2013-1888 Information

Description

pip before 1.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in the /tmp/pip-build temporary directory.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105952.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105989.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106311.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/22/10 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/725 https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/734/files https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/780/files