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🛡️ CVE-2026-1703 — pip

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

pip Path Traversal vulnerability

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must actively cooperate. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: Present — the target has to be in a particular state for the attack to work.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: Active — the victim has to cooperate with the attack.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-1703 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2026-1703 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • pip (fixed in 26.0)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 2 February 2026 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
mail.python.org (Web)

Other advisories for this package

pip has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-22: Path Traversal) in other software:

CVE-2026-1703 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-02
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pip — 26.0
unknown — —

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