CVE-2018-20225 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2018-20225 Interim 1 10 2025-08-14T02:22:03Z current 2021-05-30T14:19:30Z 2025-08-14T02:22:03Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2018-20225 An issue was discovered in pip (all versions) because it installs the version with the highest version number, even if the user had intended to obtain a private package from a private index. This only affects use of the --extra-index-url option, and exploitation requires that the package does not already exist in the public index (and thus the attacker can put the package there with an arbitrary version number). NOTE: it has been reported that this is intended functionality and the user is responsible for using --extra-index-url securely The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings An issue was discovered in pip (all versions) because it installs the version with the highest version number, even if the user had intended to obtain a private package from a private index. This only affects use of the --extra-index-url option, and exploitation requires that the package does not already exist in the public index (and thus the attacker can put the package there with an arbitrary version number). NOTE: it has been reported that this is intended functionality and the user is responsible for using --extra-index-url securely CVE-2018-20225 moderate 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H