virtualenv: Downloaded wheel selection and caching precede verification

Summary Wheel downloads go directly into the reusable wheelhouse, while the verification target is selected from pip's textual output. A verification failure does not remove the downloaded file from that cache. Anthropic's OSS Scanner reported this as ANT-2026-ST00DRO3 in virtualenv-20261015-005,...

GHSA-494P-63J8-28P3 virtualenv: Downloaded wheel selection and caching precede verification

Summary Wheel downloads go directly into the reusable wheelhouse, while the verification target is selected from pip's textual output. A verification failure does not remove the downloaded file from that cache. Anthropic's OSS Scanner reported this as ANT-2026-ST00DRO3 in virtualenv-20261015-005,...

Python Packaging Authority virtualenv encryption vulnerability

The Python Packaging Authority virtualenv version 21.14.8 has a security vulnerability. This vulnerability stems from downloadwheel, which downloads the package index into a reusable cache before validating the target based on the Saved output from pip. Due to a flaw in the digest comparison, a...