CVE-2020-27619 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2020-27619?

CVE-2020-27619 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 22 Oct 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Python 3 through 3.9.0, the Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py CJK codec tests call eval() on content retrieved via HTTP.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-27619?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including libpython, python and python-min. It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment, Python Python.

How do I fix CVE-2020-27619?

Upgrade libpython to a fixed version for your release line: 3.6.13, 3.7.10, 3.8.7 or 3.9.1.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2020-27619 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-27619 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-libpython-2020-27619, BIT-python-2020-27619, BIT-python-min-2020-27619, CLSA-2024-1721401321, CLSA-2024-1721401573, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27619 and 6 more.