GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp
pip Path Traversal vulnerability
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-1703
- Aliases
- PYSEC-2026-1796
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
When pip is installing and extracting a maliciously crafted wheel archive, files may be extracted outside the installation directory. The path traversal is limited to prefixes of the installation directory, thus isn't able to inject or overwrite executable files in typical situations.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · pip | introduced 0, fixed 26.0 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1703 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/13777 WEB
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/8e227a9be4faa9594e05d02ca05a413a2a4e7735 WEB
- https://github.com/pypa/pip PACKAGE
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/WIEA34D4TABF2UNQJAOMXKCICSPBE2DJ WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |