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.
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"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-36"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/13xxx/CVE-2026-13346.json",
"cna_assigner": "PSF"
}