CVE-2019-20916

The CVE-2019-20916 issue affects the Python pip package prior to 19.2. It enables Directory Traversal when a URL is provided in an install command due to a Content-Disposition header containing ../ in a filename, demonstrated by overwriting /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. The vulnerability is in _int...

CVE-2021-3572

The CVE-2021-3572 issue affects python-pip and stems from how it handles Unicode separators in git references, with the potential to cause a different revision to be installed in a repository. The vulnerability affects data integrity and is mitigated by upgrading to python-pip version 21.1, which...

CVE-2023-5752

The CVE-2023-5752 issue affects python-pip when installing from a Mercurial VCS URL (for example, pip install hg+...), where prior to v23.3 a specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the hg clone call (for instance --config). This could modify the re...

CVE-2026-8643

The pip package installer for Python is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw caused by incorrect pathname restrictions. When installing a malicious Python wheel containing specially crafted entry-point names using absolute paths or directory traversal, pip may write generated script wrappers outsi...

CVE-2018-20225

CVE-2018-20225 (pip) — The issue affects pip (all versions) where, when using the --extra-index-url option, pip installs the highest-version package, even if a private package is intended from a private index. The exploit condition requires that the private package does not exist in the public in...

CVE-2026-13346

Pip has a vulnerability (CVE-2026-13346) where doubly-encoded package URLs from indexes can lead to files being installed to arbitrary locations on disk, even when installing wheels. The issue is exploitable only when downloading/installing from a malicious package index; malicious packages alone...

CVE-2013-5123

The CVE-2013-5123 issue affects Python-pip prior to 1.5, where the mirroring support (-M/--use-mirrors) performs insecure DNS queries and lacks proper authenticity checks, enabling MITM-like download tampering. Connected advisories confirm this vulnerability and describe the fix as removing the m...

CVE-2013-1888

CVE-2013-1888 : The vulnerable component is the Python package manager pip , where versions prior to 1.3 allow a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack in the temporary directory used during pip builds (/_tmp/pip-build). The description and connected documents confirm th...

CVE-2013-1629

CVE-2013-1629 affects the Python package manager pip prior to 1.3, which fetched packages over HTTP from PyPI and did not perform integrity checks. This enables a man-in-the-middle to modify package content and potentially execute arbitrary code during a pip install. Connected advisories (GHSA-G3...

CVE-2014-8991

CVE-2014-8991 affects Python/pip (versions 1.3–1.5.6). The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a /tmp/pip-build-* file for another user, blocking package installations. Impact is local DoS; no remote exploitation described. Remediation in public advisori...