UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17514

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CVE-2019-17514
Published: 12 Oct 2019, 13:15
Last modified:22 Apr 2026, 12:13

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_ubuntu)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Oct 2019, 13:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2026, 12:13
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•python2.7

    < 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm6 | < 2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.12 | < 2.7.17-1~18.04ubuntu1.1 | < 2.7.18-1~20.04.1 | all

  • ubuntu•python3.4

    < 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm7

  • ubuntu•python3.5

    < 3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.4~14.04.1+esm1 | < 3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.11

  • ubuntu•python3.6

    < 3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.1

  • ubuntu•python3.7

    < 3.7.5-2ubuntu1~18.04.2+esm3

  • ubuntu•python3.8

    < 3.8.0-3~18.04 | < 3.8.2-1ubuntu1.2

References (16)