Executive Summary

Summary
Title Setuptools: Man-in-the-Middle attack
Informations
Name GLSA-201310-09 First vendor Publication 2013-10-10
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2013-10-10
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Setuptools could allow remote attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.

Background

Setuptools is a manager for Python packages.

Description

Setuptools does not check the integrity of downloaded Python packages.

Impact

A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Setuptools users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/setuptools-0.8-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-1633 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1633

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-09.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-09.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24678
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24678
Title: SUSE-SU-2014:0523-1 -- Security update for python-setuptools
Description: ython-setuptools so far used only HTTP to retrieve packages, which could have lead to man in the middle attacks on newly installed python code. This update adjusts it to use HTTPS, guaranteeing better connection integrity. Security Issue reference: * CVE-2013-1633 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1633 >
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2014:0523-1
CVE-2013-1633
 Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
 Product(s): python-setuptools
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 11

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-04-15 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_python-setuptools-140409.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201310-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-10 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-227.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-05 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-14891.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:37:49
  • Multiple Updates
2013-10-10 17:19:41
  • First insertion