ghsa-pgrc-mvjg-qfr7
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-24 16:58
Modified
2024-04-04 02:23
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Details

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 reports that NMR researchers were specifically relying on library/glob.html. In other words, because the older documentation stated "finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell," one might have incorrectly inferred that the sorting that occurs in a Unix shell also occurred for glob.glob. There is a workaround in newer versions of Willoughby nmr-data_compilation-p2.py and nmr-data_compilation-p3.py, which call sort() directly.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2019-17514"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-682"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2019-10-12T13:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "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 reports that NMR researchers were specifically relying on library/glob.html. In other words, because the older documentation stated \"finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell,\" one might have incorrectly inferred that the sorting that occurs in a Unix shell also occurred for glob.glob. There is a workaround in newer versions of Willoughby nmr-data_compilation-p2.py and nmr-data_compilation-p3.py, which call sort() directly.",
  "id": "GHSA-pgrc-mvjg-qfr7",
  "modified": "2024-04-04T02:23:36Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T16:58:41Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17514"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.python.org/issue33275"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L380"
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      "url": "https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L405"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216/suppl_file/ol9b03216_si_002.zip"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191107-0005"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/LucasCMoore/status/1181615421922824192"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/chris_bloke/status/1181997278136958976"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4428-1"
    },
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150822013622/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html"
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150906020027/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html"
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160309211341/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html"
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    {
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160526201356/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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