GHSA-qwm4-qh6w-59xrMedium

pip would incorrectly handle doubly-encoded package URLs from indexes

Published
July 29, 2026
Last Modified
September 1, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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 to succeed, malicious packages alone are not able to exploit this vulnerability. Note that this vulnerability only materially impacts users running pip download with the --only-binary option as installing source distributions from an untrusted index is already an unsafe operation that executes code during install time.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/pip:< 26.2.0

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