UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20852

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20852

    Published: 13 Jul 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-20852

    Summary:

    Details: http.cookiejar.DefaultPolicy.domain_return_ok in Lib/http/cookiejar.py in Python before 3.7.3 does not correctly validate the domain: it can be tricked into sending existing cookies to the wrong server. An attacker may abuse this flaw by using a server with a hostname that has another valid hostname as a suffix (e.g., pythonicexample.com to steal cookies for example.com). When a program uses http.cookiejar.DefaultPolicy and tries to do an HTTP connection to an attacker-controlled server, existing cookies can be leaked to the attacker. This affects 2.x through 2.7.16, 3.x before 3.4.10, 3.5.x before 3.5.7, 3.6.x before 3.6.9, and 3.7.x before 3.7.3.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20852, https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/cookie-domain-check.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4127-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4127-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20852, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6891-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python2.7

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm2?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm2

    Affected versions

    2.7.5-8ubuntu3
    2.7.5-8ubuntu4
    2.7.6-2
    2.7.6-2ubuntu1
    2.7.6-3
    2.7.6-3ubuntu1
    2.7.6-4
    2.7.6-4ubuntu1
    2.7.6-5
    2.7.6-7
    2.7.6-8
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.3
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.4
    2.7.6-8ubuntu0.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High