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CVE-2020-5252

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-5252 describes a low-severity security issue in the command-line "safety" package for Python, where malicious code can obfuscate other insecure packages, leading to unreliable dependency scanning results. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.1 (MEDIUM), indicating a local attack vector with high complexity and high integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, with only one mention and one media article.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pyup:safety:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.0MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.6
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 418 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: safetyFixed in: 1.9.0
github_advisoryworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-7q25-qrjw-6fg2medium

Malicious package may avoid detection in python auditing

Mar 24, 2020

References

github.com / akoumjian/python-safety-vuln
ProductThird Party Advisory
github.com / pyupio/safety/security/advisories/GHSA-7q25-qrjw-6fg2
MitigationThird Party Advisory
pyup.io / posts/patched-vulnerability
Vendor Advisory