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[CVE-2026-1703] Limited path traversal when installing wheel archives
by Seth Larson Feb. 2, 2026

Feb. 2, 2026

There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting pip. 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. Please see the linked CVE ID for the latest information on affected versions: * https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-1703 * https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/13777

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