Description
Poetry v1.1.9 and below 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.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | poetry +1 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | poetry +1 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | poetry +1 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | poetry +1 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | poetry +1 | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | poetry | < 1.1.9 | 1.1.9 | GHSA-xr2c-5w89-63pv |