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Fencer Vulns
high 8.0

CVE-2026-8643 json

pip can extract console_scripts and gui_scripts outside installation directory

published 2026-06-01 5 mo ago modified 2026-09-16 54 d ago also GHSA-wf93-45jw-7689 , PYSEC-2026-196 , EUVD-2026-33682

cvss
8.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

pip would treat console_scripts and gui_scripts as paths instead of file names without sanitizing the resolved absolute path to the installation directory, leading to entry points being installed outside the installation directory.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pip 26.1.2
  • Python Packaging Authority pip 26.1.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:4.6.30-2.el8ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:4.6.30-2.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 0:4.7.14-3.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 0:25.2-3.el10_2.5
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:25.2-3.el9_8.5
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 1784049109
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 1782711769, 1782713671, 1782761510, 1783969139, 1785753810
  • Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 2 1782763840, 1786638573
  • Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images 26.1.1-3.1.hum1, 26.1.2-1.hum1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8.2 1786481481
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 1782475830, 1783024305, 1783082430, 1783342900, 1783998418
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.0 1782928977, 1782928984, 1782929069, 1782929133, 1782968171
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.2 1782914629, 1782914721, 1782914751, 1782914833, 1782915184, 1782915416
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 1782471555, 1782471579, 1782471656, 1782471663, 1782887848, 1782914644, 1782914653, 1782914706, 1782914779, 1782914960, 1782915015, 1782915056, 1782916020, 1782991170, 1783010225, 1783069204, 1783073038
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 1782132163, 1782132167, 1782132207, 1782132236, 1782132237, 1782132240, 1782132286, 1782132297, 1782133213, 1782135346, 1782135464, 1782136276, 1782726504, 1786612415, 1786612637, 1786635926, 1787073459, 1787073866, 1787073873, 1787073936
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.4 1782485441
  • python-pip Debian 14 26.1.2+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8643

  • receptor ansible automation platform 2.6 1.6.6-1.el10ap
  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.6, ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.6 +3 more 1.6.6-1.el9ap
  • ansible-core ansible automation platform developer 2.6, ansible automation platform 2.6 2:2.16.19-1.el10ap
  • ansible-core ansible automation platform inside 2.6, ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.6 +3 more 1:2.16.19-1.el9ap
  • python3.12-pulpcore ansible automation platform 2.6 3.49.63-2.el9ap
  • python3.12-gitpython ansible automation platform 2.6 3.1.50-1.el9ap
  • automation-platform-ui ansible automation platform 2.6 2.6.11-1.el9ap
  • automation-gateway-proxy ansible automation platform 2.6 2.6.17-1.el9ap

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:42079RHSA-2026:42078RHSA-2026:36359RHSA-2026:36315RHSA-2026:36193RHSA-2026:34891

  • python3 SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +11 more 3.6.15-150300.10.129.1
  • python3-core SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +12 more 3.6.15-150300.10.129.1
  • grafana Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 12.4.10-150002.4.27.1
  • mgr-push Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 5.2.5-150002.3.12.1
  • spacecmd Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 5.2.10-150002.3.15.1
  • uyuni-tools Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-Micro-5, Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 5.2.17-150002.3.20.1
  • venv-salt-minion Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-Micro-5, Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 3006.0-150002.5.22.1
  • spacewalk-client-tools Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 5.2.7-150002.3.12.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4754-1SUSE-SU-2026:4585-1SUSE-SU-2026:4584-1SUSE-SU-2026:4583-1SUSE-SU-2026:4582-1SUSE-SU-2026:4581-1

  • python-pip openSUSE Leap 16.0 25.0.1-160000.5.1
  • python-pip openSUSE Tumbleweed 26.1.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20993-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10940-1

  • python3.14-pip AlmaLinux 10 25.2-3.el10_2.5
  • python3.14-pip-wheel AlmaLinux 10 25.2-3.el10_2.5
  • python3.14-pip AlmaLinux 9 25.2-3.el9_8.5
  • python3.14-pip-wheel AlmaLinux 9 25.2-3.el9_8.5

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:36193ALSA-2026:36315

  • python3.14-pip Rocky Linux 10 25.2-3.el10_2.5
  • python3.14-pip Rocky Linux 9 25.2-3.el9_8.5

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:36193RLSA-2026:36315

  • python-pip Azure Linux 3.0 24.2-9
  • python-virtualenv Azure Linux 3.0 20.36.1-5

azure linux advisories AZL-89325AZL-89463

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-8643 updated cvss 8.0

python-pip: Path traversal via malicious entry point name in pip wheel installation allows arbitrary file overwrite

  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence-tech-preview/vulnerability-analysis-rhel9 Red Hat Lightspeed Core lightspeed-core/rag-tool-cpu-rhel9, lightspeed-core/rag-tool-cuda-12.9-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization mtv-candidate/mtv-rhel9-operator, migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-rhel9-operator Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaii/vllm-cpu-rhel9, rhaii/vllm-tpu-rhel9, rhaii/vllm-cuda-rhel9, rhaii/vllm-rocm-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-cpu-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-tpu-rhel9, +9 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-24/controller-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9-operator, ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9-operator, ansible-automation-platform/automation-dashboard-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9-operator, ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9-operator, +4 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-must-gather-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ubi8/python-36, ubi8/python-39, ubi8/python-312, rhel8/python-311 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rhel9/python-39, ubi9/python-312, rhel9/python-311, ubi9/python-312-minimal Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 rhel10/python-312-minimal
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-aws-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gcp-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9, +2 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux command line assistant rhel-cla/rhel-knowledge-bridge-rhel10 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-vllm-cuda-rhel9, rhoai/odh-vllm-rocm-rhel9, rhai/base-image-gaudi-rhel9, rhai/base-image-rocm-7.1-rhel9, rhoai/odh-pipelines-components-rhel9, rhoai/odh-th06-cpu-torch291-py312-rhel9, +3 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift4/ose-ansible-rhel9-operator Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer rhtas/segment-reporting-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 ansible-automation-platform-25/controller-rhel8 1784049109
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:42144
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 automation-controller-venv-tower 4.6.30-2.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 automation-controller-venv-tower 4.6.30-2.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:42078
show 18 more
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9 1782761510, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9 1785753810, ansible-automation-platform-26/de-minimal-rhel9 1782711769, ansible-automation-platform-26/de-supported-rhel9 1782713671, ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/metrics-service-rhel9 1783969139
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:50479
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 automation-controller-venv-tower 4.7.14-3.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:42079
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 discovery/discovery-server-rhel9 1782763840, discovery/discovery-server-rhel9 1786638573
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:54760
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) python3.14-pip 25.2-3.el9_8.5, python3.14-pip-wheel 25.2-3.el9_8.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36315
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) python3.14-pip 25.2-3.el10_2.5, python3.14-pip-wheel 25.2-3.el10_2.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36193
  • Red Hat Hardened Images python-pip 26.1.2-1.hum1, python3-pip 26.1.2-1.hum1, python-pip 26.1.1-3.1.hum1, python3-pip 26.1.1-3.1.hum1, python-pip-wheel 26.1.2-1.hum1, python-pip-wheel 26.1.1-3.1.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:34891
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8.2 mta/mta-rhel9-operator 1786481481
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:56347
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 rhoai/odh-caikit-nlp-rhel9 1791448212, rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9 1792148523, rhoai/odh-built-in-detector-rhel9 1791364320, rhoai/odh-caikit-tgis-serving-rhel9 1783082430, rhoai/odh-modelmesh-runtime-adapter-rhel9 1783342900, rhoai/odh-kserve-storage-initializer-rhel9 1783024305, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:87410
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.0 rhai/base-image-cpu-rhel9 1782929133, rhai/base-image-cpu-rhel9 1793042072, rhai/base-image-tpu-rhel9 1782968171, rhai/base-image-cuda-rhel9 1782929069, rhai/base-image-cuda-rhel9 1793042067, rhai/base-image-rocm-rhel9 1782928977, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:34772
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.2 rhai/base-image-cpu-rhel9 1782915416, rhai/base-image-tpu-rhel9 1782914629, rhai/base-image-cuda-rhel9 1782915184, rhai/base-image-rocm-rhel9 1782914721, rhai/base-image-rocm-rhel9 1782914751, rhai/base-image-spyre-rhel9 1782914833
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:34739
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai/odh-mlserver-rhel9 1782887848, rhai/base-image-cpu-rhel9 1782914779, rhai/base-image-tpu-rhel9 1782914653, rhai/base-image-spyre-rhel9 1782916020, rhai/base-image-neuron-rhel9 1782915056, rhai/base-image-rocm-6.4-rhel9 1782914644, +12 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:34776
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 rhoai/odh-automl-rhel9 1786612415, rhoai/odh-autorag-rhel9 1786612637, rhoai/odh-mlserver-rhel9 1782726504, rhai/base-image-cpu-rhel9 1790703631, rhai/base-image-tpu-rhel9 1790703539, rhai/base-image-spyre-rhel9 1790703597, +39 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:74679
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.5 rhoai/odh-latency-predictor-training-rhel9 1786552250, rhoai/odh-latency-predictor-prediction-rhel9 1786552271
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:60367
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 devspaces/udi-rhel9 1792708612
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:90321
  • Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.4 rhtas/model-transparency-rhel9 1782485441
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:37283
  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-rag-tool-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path
  • Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed pen-drive/pen-drive-scanner-rhel9
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 ansible-automation-platform-25/hub-rhel8 1784050598, ansible-automation-platform-25/gateway-rhel8 1784049566, ansible-automation-platform-25/hub-web-rhel8 1784054665, ansible-automation-platform-25/receptor-rhel8 1784047883, ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel8 1784064978, ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-minimal-rhel8 1784035663, +20 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 receptor 1.6.6-1.el8ap, receptorctl 1.6.6-1.el8ap, ansible-core 2.16.19-1.el8ap, ansible-test 2.16.19-1.el8ap, automation-hub 4.10.16-1.el8ap, python3.12-pyjwt 2.13.0-1.el8ap, +20 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.6.6-1.el9ap, receptorctl 1.6.6-1.el9ap, ansible-core 2.16.19-1.el9ap, ansible-test 2.16.19-1.el9ap, automation-hub 4.10.16-1.el9ap, python3.12-pyjwt 2.13.0-1.el9ap, +20 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9 1782755272, ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9 1783979593, ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9 1785753568, ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9 1783969842, ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9 1785780020, ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-web-rhel9 1782759318, +82 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.6.6-1.el9ap, molecule 26.6.0-1.el9ap, receptorctl 1.6.6-1.el9ap, ansible-sign 0.1.6-1.el9ap, ansible-lint 26.6.0-1.el9ap, ansible-core 2.16.19-1.el9ap, +39 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

18 more not affected in the full advisory

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 4.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADP 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 4.0 4.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pip
<26.1.2
26.1.2

Affected products

  • Python Packaging Authority pip
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images
  • Red Hat Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.0
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.4
  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence
  • Red Hat Lightspeed Core
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization
  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3
  • Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux command line assistant
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer
  • Red Hat Service Telemetry Framework 1.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.