🛡️ CVE-2022-26184 — poetry

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-426 OSV

9.5

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Poetry before v1.1.9 contains Untrusted Search Path

Poetry prior to v1.1.9 was discovered to contain an untrusted search path which causes the application to behave in unexpected ways when users execute Poetry commands in a directory containing malicious content. This vulnerability occurs when the application is ran on Windows OS.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-26184 is classified as CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path. The product resolves a library or executable using a search path an attacker can influence.

Affected software

CVE-2022-26184 is recorded against 1 package.

poetry (fixed in 1.1.9)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 March 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
www.sonarsource.com (Web)

CVE-2022-26184 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity CRITICAL

CVSS Score 9.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE CWE-426

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2022-03-23

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/205/commits/fa9cb6f358ae840885c700f954317f34838caba7

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
poetry	—	1.1.9

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26184

WEB https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/205/commits/fa9cb6f358ae840885c700f954317f34838caba7

WEB https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/commit/1e1a109a1009daaab2367ce90c997f0cbbb0c1d1

ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xr2c-5w89-63pv

WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/poetry/PYSEC-2022-234.yaml

WEB https://github.com/python-poetry

WEB https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.1.9

WEB https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers

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