Re: CVE request: distutils creates ~/.pypirc insecurely

[Vincent Danen <vdanen () redhat com>]

* [2012-03-27 09:59:46 -0600] Kurt Seifried wrote:

> On 03/27/2012 08:15 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > Standard flaw where a file that contains a username and password is
> > written with insecure permissions.  This only affects python 2.6 and
> > higher.
> >
> > Could a CVE name be assigned to this flaw?  I don't think one has been
> > already.
> >
> > References:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650555
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758905
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue13512
> > http://bugs.python.org/file23824/pypirc-secure.diff
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Please use CVE-2012-1587 for this issue.

Sorry, I probably should have been more explicit on when it was reported
(this is an older flaw).  It was reported (and public) in 2011.

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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team