GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/02/GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp/GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-02-02T15:30:34Z
Modified
2026-02-04T18:13:54.385413Z
Severity
  • 2.0 (Low) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
pip Path Traversal vulnerability
Details

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 files in typical situations.

Database specific 
{
    "severity": "LOW",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-22"
    ],
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-02-02T22:08:51Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-02-02T15:16:30Z"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / pip

Package

Name
pip
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/pip

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
26.0

Affected versions

0.*
0.2
0.2.1
0.3
0.3.1
0.4
0.5
0.5.1
0.6
0.6.1
0.6.2
0.6.3
0.7
0.7.1
0.7.2
0.8
0.8.1
0.8.2
0.8.3
1.*
1.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.1
1.2
1.2.1
1.3
1.3.1
1.4
1.4.1
1.5
1.5.1
1.5.2
1.5.3
1.5.4
1.5.5
1.5.6
6.*
6.0
6.0.1
6.0.2
6.0.3
6.0.4
6.0.5
6.0.6
6.0.7
6.0.8
6.1.0
6.1.1
7.*
7.0.0
7.0.1
7.0.2
7.0.3
7.1.0
7.1.1
7.1.2
8.*
8.0.0
8.0.1
8.0.2
8.0.3
8.1.0
8.1.1
8.1.2
9.*
9.0.0
9.0.1
9.0.2
9.0.3
10.*
10.0.0b1
10.0.0b2
10.0.0
10.0.1
18.*
18.0
18.1
19.*
19.0
19.0.1
19.0.2
19.0.3
19.1
19.1.1
19.2
19.2.1
19.2.2
19.2.3
19.3
19.3.1
20.*
20.0
20.0.1
20.0.2
20.1b1
20.1
20.1.1
20.2b1
20.2
20.2.1
20.2.2
20.2.3
20.2.4
20.3b1
20.3
20.3.1
20.3.2
20.3.3
20.3.4
21.*
21.0
21.0.1
21.1
21.1.1
21.1.2
21.1.3
21.2
21.2.1
21.2.2
21.2.3
21.2.4
21.3
21.3.1
22.*
22.0
22.0.1
22.0.2
22.0.3
22.0.4
22.1b1
22.1
22.1.1
22.1.2
22.2
22.2.1
22.2.2
22.3
22.3.1
23.*
23.0
23.0.1
23.1
23.1.1
23.1.2
23.2
23.2.1
23.3
23.3.1
23.3.2
24.*
24.0
24.1b1
24.1b2
24.1
24.1.1
24.1.2
24.2
24.3
24.3.1
25.*
25.0
25.0.1
25.1
25.1.1
25.2
25.3

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/02/GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp/GHSA-6vgw-5pg2-w6jp.json"