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5 known vulnerabilities.

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  • Medium 5.6

    pip absolute path traversal during download from malicious package indexes

    pip would incorrectly handle doubly-encoded package URLs from indexes allowing for files to be installed to arbitrary locations on disk even when installing wheels. This vulnerability requires downloading or installing a package from a malicious package index…

  • Medium 4.1

    pip can extract console_scripts and gui_scripts outside installation directory

    pip would treat console_scripts and gui_scripts as paths instead of file names without sanitizing the resolved absolute path to the installation directory, leading to entry points being installed outside the installation directory.

  • Medium 4.6

    pip doesn't reject concatenated ZIP and tar archives

    pip handles concatenated tar and ZIP files as ZIP files regardless of filename or whether a file is both a tar and ZIP file. This behavior could result in confusing installation behavior, such as installing "incorrect" files according to the filename of the a…

  • Low 2.0

    Limited path traversal when installing wheel archives

    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 fi…

  • Medium 5.9

    Fallback tar extraction in pip doesn't check symbolic links point to extraction directory

    When extracting a tar archive pip may not check symbolic links point into the extraction directory if the tarfile module doesn't implement PEP 706. Note that upgrading pip to a "fixed" version for this vulnerability doesn't fix all known vulnerabilities that …