GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jpLow

pip Path Traversal vulnerability

Published
February 2, 2026
Last Modified
February 2, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/pip:< 26.0

🔗 References (5)