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  • Low —
    GHSA-xmj3-9gf7-h52w

    setuptools: Windows path escape via namespace_packages.txt during legacy wheel installation Description

    ### Summary On Windows, attacker-controlled content in a wheel's `.dist-info/namespace_packages.txt` can cause setuptools' legacy wheel installation path to create an `__init__.py` outside the requested `destination_eggdir`. The attacker can influence the des…

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  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2026-59890

    setuptools: MANIFEST.in exclusion bypass in sdist via Unicode normalization collision (NFC/NFD) on macOS APFS/HFS+

    setuptools is a package that allows users to download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages. Prior to 83.0.0, FileList applied MANIFEST.in exclude, global-exclude, recursive-exclude, and prune directives by matching compiled glob patterns ag…

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  • 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…

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  • High 8.8
    CVE-2024-6345

    Remote Code Execution in pypa/setuptools

    A vulnerability in the package_index module of pypa/setuptools versions up to 69.1.1 allows for remote code execution via its download functions. These functions, which are used to download packages from URLs provided by users or retrieved from package index …

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  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2022-40897

    pypa/setuptools vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

    Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or custom PackageIndex page. There is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py.

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  • High 8.3
    CVE-2013-1633

    Setuptools vulnerable to Man-in-the-middle attacks

    easy_install in setuptools before 0.7 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted response to the default …

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