CVE-2026-1703Limited path traversal when installing wheel archives

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.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/13777 patch
• https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/8e227a9be4faa9594e05d02ca05a413a2a4e7735 patch
• https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/WIEA34D4TABF2UNQJAOMXKCICSPBE2DJ/ vendor-advisory