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

CVE ID : CVE-2026-1703

Published : Feb. 2, 2026, 2:43 p.m. | 32 minutes ago

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.

Severity: 2.0 | LOW

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