CVE-2026-1703 (GCVE-0-2026-1703)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-02-02 14:43
Modified
2026-02-02 17:21
Severity ?
2.0 (Low) - 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
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
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.
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