Microsoft advisory for CVE-2014-8991 — azl3 python-pip 24.2-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- azl3 python-pip 24.2-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2014-8991
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.2 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
pip 1.3 through 1.5.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of package installation) by creating a /tmp/pip-build-* file for another user.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2014-8991, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).