CVE-2026-1703

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published2/2/2026

Last Modified2/3/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

References

https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/8e227a9be4faa9594e05d02ca05a413a2a4e7735(cna@python.org)

https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/13777(cna@python.org)

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/WIEA34D4TABF2UNQJAOMXKCICSPBE2DJ/(cna@python.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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