GHSA-3936-cmfr-pm3mHighCVSS 7.5

Black: Arbitrary file writes from unsanitized user input in cache file name

Published
March 12, 2026
Last Modified
August 3, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Black writes a cache file, the name of which is computed from various formatting options. The value of the --python-cell-magics option was placed in the filename without sanitization, which allowed an attacker who controls the value of this argument to write cache files to arbitrary file system locations.

Patches

Fixed in Black 26.3.1.

Workarounds

Do not allow untrusted user input into the value of the --python-cell-magics option.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/black:>= 24.3.0, < 26.3.1

🔗 References (15)