Security Advisory

CVE-2019-13404

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-07-08 00:54:41
Last updated 2024-08-04 23:49:24
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The MSI installer for Python through 2.7.16 on Windows defaults to the C:\Python27 directory, which makes it easier for local users to deploy Trojan horse code. (This also affects old 3.x releases before 3.5.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that it is the user's responsibility to ensure C:\Python27 access control or choose a different directory, because backwards compatibility requires that C:\Python27 remain the default for 2.7.x