Vulnerability · NVD

CVE-2019-17514

HIGH 7.5 Published on 2019-10-12

library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the effects of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it is likely that security-relevant code elsewhere is affected. This issue is not a Python implementation bug, and there are no reports that NMR researchers were specifically relying on library/glob.html. In other words, because the older documentation stated "finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell," one might have incorrectly inferred that the sorting that occurs in a Unix shell also occurred for glob.glob. There is a workaround in newer versions of Willoughby nmr-data_compilation-p2.py and nmr-data_compilation-p3.py, which call sort() directly.

Attack vector : Network No privileges required No user interaction

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS 4.67% above median percentile 90.9%

Tracked apps referencing this CVE

For each app: the affected range, the fixing version, and where the tracked app stands today.

Python 3.12 Windows winget:Python.Python.3.12

Affected — Fixed in — Latest tracked 3.12.10 undetermined

Vulnerable CPE configurations (3)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions	CPE 2.3 URI
python	python All platforms (wildcard)	All platforms (wildcard)	—	cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.6.0:-::::::
python	python All platforms (wildcard)	All platforms (wildcard)	—	cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.7.0:-::::::
python	python All platforms (wildcard)	All platforms (wildcard)	—	cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.8.0:-::::::

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