CVE-2026-13346: pip would incorrectly handle doubly-encoded package URLs from indexes
(updated )
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.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-qwm4-qh6w-59xr
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pip/PYSEC-2026-3721.yaml
- github.com/pypa/pip/commit/10dfb6b9005484578b386f64b9f36982e3dc6679
- github.com/pypa/pip/pull/14110
- mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/L2BNQGGVQCEV7DROOORQ7WFKKFF2OOQX
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13346
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