{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"moderate"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2018-20225","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"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","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2018-20225","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20225"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 1171462 for CVE-2018-20225","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171462"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2018-20225","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-07-08T00:21:06Z","generator":{"date":"2023-02-15T04:21:18Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2018-20225","initial_release_date":"2023-02-15T04:21:18Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-02-15T04:21:18Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-01-01T07:14:38Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-01-10T03:48:59Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-02-15T07:56:22Z","number":"5","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-02-18T06:51:36Z","number":"6","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-06-26T05:06:04Z","number":"7","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-07-01T02:04:47Z","number":"8","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-07-08T00:21:06Z","number":"9","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"9"}}}