CVE-2026-1703 (GCVE-0-2026-1703)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-02 14:43 – Updated: 2026-02-02 17:21
VLAI
Title
Limited path traversal when installing wheel archives
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.
Severity
2 (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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-02 17:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Python Packaging Authority pip Affected: 0 , < 26.0 (python)
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