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Medium ALSA-2025:11036 1 CVE

Moderate: python-setuptools security update

Published Jul 15, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* setuptools: Path Traversal Vulnerability in setuptools PackageIndex (CVE-2025-47273)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 platform-python-setuptools 39.2.0-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 python3-setuptools 39.2.0-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 python3-setuptools-wheel 39.2.0-9.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.7
    CVE-2025-47273 Public exploit

    setuptools has a path traversal vulnerability in PackageIndex.download that leads to Arbitrary File Write

    setuptools is a package that allows users to download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages. A path traversal vulnerability in `PackageIndex` is present in setuptools prior to version 78.1.1. An attacker would be allowed to write files to ar…

    pypa setuptools kserve-storage-controller datadog-agent-7.77 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi PyPI

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-47273
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2366982
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-11036.html