PublicCVE

CVE-2026-13346

MEDIUM5.6Path traversal

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.

CVSS breakdown

CVSS 4.0
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Active
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System)
None
Integrity (Vulnerable System)
High
Availability (Vulnerable System)
None
Confidentiality (Subsequent System)
None
Integrity (Subsequent System)
None
Availability (Subsequent System)
None

Affected products

Updated 28m ago · 8 sources