Limited path traversal when installing wheel archives
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Python Packaging Authority | pip | unaffected |
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp | pip Path Traversal vulnerability |
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.436% probability within 30 days)
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| 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. | |
| Title | Limited path traversal when installing wheel archives | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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cvssV4_0
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