🛡️ CVE-2013-1633 — setuptools

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-319 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Setuptools vulnerable to Man-in-the-middle attacks

easy_install in setuptools before 0.7 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 the default use of the product.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2013-1633 is classified as CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. Sensitive data crosses the network without encryption and can be read or altered in transit.

Affected software

CVE-2013-1633 is recorded against 1 package.

  • setuptools (fixed in 0.7)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 22 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
pypi.python.org (Web)
www.reddit.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-319
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-10-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
setuptools — 0.7

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