CVE-2026-1703

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.

Score

CVSS 4.0 2.0 Low

Status

Deferred - cna@python.org

Published

2026-02-02

Last modified

2026-02-02

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Pip (Python Packaging Authority)

References

• https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/8e227a9be4faa9594e05d02ca05a413a2a4e7735
• https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/13777
• https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/WIEA34D4TABF2UNQJAOMXKCICSPBE2DJ/