Summary

Pip is vulnerable to path traversal due to a lack of validation for symbolic links when Pip is used with instances of python which do not implement PEP 706. This could allow a remote attacker to extract a tar file outside of the intended directory.

Products Affected

• Brocade SANnav base OS (OVA deployment) before 3.0.0
• Brocade ASCG before 3.4.0

Products Not Affected

• Brocade Fabric OS
  [VEX Justification: Component_not_present]
• Brocade SANnav standard deployment
  [VEX Justification: Vulnerable_code_not_in_execute_path]
• Brocade SANnav base OS (OVA deployment) version 3.0.0
  [VEX Justification: Vulnerable_code_not_in_execute_path]

Solution

• Solution provided in Brocade ASCG 3.4.0

Revision History

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