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high 7.8

CVE-2013-4251 json

SciPy creates insecure temporary directories

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-xp76-357g-9wqq , PYSEC-2019-156 , EUVD-2019-0129

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The scipy.weave component in SciPy before 0.12.1 creates insecure temporary directories.

Patch / fix

  • pypi scipy 0.12.1
  • scipy scipy 0.12.1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4251 updated cvss 3.6

scipy: weave /tmp and current directory issues

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 scipy
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 scipy
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi scipy
<0.12.1
0.12.1

Affected products

  • SciPy SciPy

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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