{"id":"CVE-2019-17514","details":"library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the effects of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it is likely that security-relevant code elsewhere is affected. This issue is not a Python implementation bug, and there are no reports that NMR researchers were specifically relying on library/glob.html. In other words, because the older documentation stated \"finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell,\" one might have incorrectly inferred that the sorting that occurs in a Unix shell also occurred for glob.glob. There is a workaround in newer versions of Willoughby nmr-data_compilation-p2.py and nmr-data_compilation-p3.py, which call sort() directly.","modified":"2026-07-09T04:30:29.192857Z","published":"2019-10-12T13:15:10.790Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4428-1/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216/suppl_file/ol9b03216_si_002.zip"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191107-0005/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://twitter.com/chris_bloke/status/1181997278136958976"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20150822013622/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20150906020027/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20160309211341/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20160526201356/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.python.org/issue33275"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://twitter.com/LucasCMoore/status/1181615421922824192"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L380"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L405"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/python/cpython","events":[{"introduced":"5c4568a05a0a62b5947c55f68f9f2ecfb90a4f12"},{"last_affected":"fa919fdf2583bdfead1df00e842f24f30b2a34bf"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":["cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.8.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"3.6.0-NA"},{"last_affected":"3.6.0-NA"},{"introduced":"3.7.0-NA"},{"last_affected":"3.7.0-NA"},{"introduced":"3.8.0-NA"},{"last_affected":"3.8.0-NA"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["3.6.0-NA","3.7.0-NA","3.8.0-NA"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-17514.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}