CVE-2013-1629: Improper Input Validation in pip

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pip before 1.3 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted response to a “pip install” operation.

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