CVE-2019-17514 — library/glob

library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the effects of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it is like

01What is this vulnerability?

library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the effects of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it is likely that security-relevant code elsewhere is affected. This issue is not a Python implementation bug, and there are no…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-10-12T12:07:23.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T01:40:15.920Z

09References

• web.archive.org — https://web.archive.org/web/20150906020027/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/g…
• web.archive.org — https://web.archive.org/web/20160526201356/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/g…
• web.archive.org — https://web.archive.org/web/20150822013622/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glo…
• web.archive.org — https://web.archive.org/web/20160309211341/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glo…
• github.com — https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pat…
• github.com — https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pat…
• bugs.python.org — https://bugs.python.org/issue33275
• twitter.com — https://twitter.com/LucasCMoore/status/1181615421922824192
• pubs.acs.org — https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216/suppl_file/ol9b03216_…
• pubs.acs.org — https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216
• www.vice.com — https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-i…
• twitter.com — https://twitter.com/chris_bloke/status/1181997278136958976
• security.netapp.com — https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191107-0005/
• usn.ubuntu.com — https://usn.ubuntu.com/4428-1/