CVE-2026-1703

low Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
3.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 94% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Published: February 2, 2026 (101 days ago)
Last Modified: February 2, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat

Description

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.

CWE

CWE-22

Affected Products

Lightspeed CoreLogging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftMigration Toolkit for VirtualizationOpenShift LightspeedOpenShift Service Mesh 3Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat LightspeedRed Hat AI Inference ServerRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Red Hat Discovery 2Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com