pypa/pip · Security
pip would incorrectly handle doubly-encoded package URLs from indexes
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-qwm4-qh6w-59xr
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-13346
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 5.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
pip would incorrectly handle doubly-encoded package URLs from indexes allowing for files to be installed to arbitrary locations on disk even when installing wheels.
This vulnerability requires downloading or installing a package from a malicious package index to succeed, malicious packages alone are not able to exploit this vulnerability. Note that this vulnerability only materially impacts users running pip download with the --only-binary option as installing source distributions from an untrusted index is already an unsafe operation that executes code during install time.
CWEs
- CWE-36 · Absolute Path Traversal
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13346 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/14110 ↗
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/L2BNQGGVQCEV7DROOORQ7WFKKFF2OOQX ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/29/7 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/10dfb6b9005484578b386f64b9f36982e3dc6679 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pip/PYSEC-2026-3721.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qwm4-qh6w-59xr ↗