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CVE-2019-20916 is a relative path traversal vulnerability in pip before version 19.2 for Python. When pip processes a URL supplied to an install command, the download handling logic in _download_http_url within _internal/download.py uses the filename value from an HTTP Content-Disposition header without adequately neutralizing traversal sequences such as "../". A malicious server can therefore cause pip to write the downloaded content outside the intended destination directory by supplying a crafted filename in the response header. This can result in arbitrary file overwrite on the system running pip.
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Arbitrary file read via path traversal in a Python package manager due to improper restriction of filenames in a Content-Disposition header.
A path traversal vulnerability in a Python package manager involving insufficient restriction of filenames in Content-Disposition headers, enabling arbitrary file read via ../ sequences.
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