Is pip safe ? 13 known vulnerabilities, worst severity HIGH.
// reach 0 direct dependencies
none carry a known advisory
150 packages depend on it
an advisory here reaches each of them
// ai models 1 published models carry an advisory from this package
0 pin a version the advisory is confirmed against; the rest declare it without a version.
2 published models
0 declared · 0 observed · 0 inferred
2 published AI models are associated with this package: 0 name it in a requirements or pyproject file, 0 load it or import it directly, and 0 are inferred from the runtime stack their declared library pulls in. Only 0 state a version requirement, so this is not a count of affected models.
cvss CVSS v3.1 base score out of 10; GitHub rates it HIGH
epss chance of exploitation in 30 days, 95th percentile of all CVEs
xyz score CyberXYZ composite, a working exploit is published
fig. 01 — GHSA-c5h8-cq4v-cvfm, the advisory selected below
// 13 advisories GHSA-c5h8-cq4v-cvfm The mirroring support (-M, --use-mirrors) in Python Pip before 1.5 uses insecure DNS querying and authenticity checks which allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks. HIGH GHSA-g3p5-fjj9-h8gj pip before 1.3 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package contents, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted response to a "pip install" operation. HIGH GHSA-5xp3-jfq3-5q8x A flaw was found in python-pip in the way it handled Unicode separators in git references. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to install a different revision on a repository. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This is fixed in python-pip version 21.1. HIGH GHSA-gpvv-69j7-gwj8 The pip package before 19.2 for Python allows Directory Traversal when a URL is given in an install command, because a Content-Disposition header can have ../ in a filename, as demonstrated by overwriting the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. This occurs in _download_http_url in _internal/download.py. A fix was committed 6704f2ace. HIGH GHSA-qwm4-qh6w-59xr 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. MODE GHSA-wf93-45jw-7689 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. MODE GHSA-jp4c-xjxw-mgf9 pip prior to version 26.1 would run self-update check functionality after installing wheel files which required importing well-known Python modules names. These module imports were intentionally deferred to increase startup time of the pip CLI. The patch changes self-update functionality to run before wheels are installed to prevent newly-installed modules from being imported shortly after the ins MODE GHSA-58qw-9mgm-455v pip handles concatenated tar and ZIP files as ZIP files regardless of filename or whether a file is both a tar and ZIP file. This behavior could result in confusing installation behavior, such as installing "incorrect" files according to the filename of the archive. New behavior only proceeds with installation if the file identifies uniquely as a ZIP or tar archive, not as both. MODE GHSA-4xh5-x5gv-qwph When extracting a tar archive pip may not check symbolic links point into the extraction directory if the tarfile module doesn't implement PEP 706. Note that upgrading pip to a "fixed" version for this vulnerability doesn't fix all known vulnerabilities that are remediated by using a Python version that implements PEP 706. Note that this is a vulnerability in pip's fallback implementation of tar e MODE GHSA-mq26-g339-26xf When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL, e.g. pip install hg+..., with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the hg clone call (e.g. --config). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial. MODE Show all 13 advisories The mirroring support (-M, --use-mirrors) in Python Pip before 1.5 uses insecure DNS querying and authenticity checks which allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.
// cvss v3.1 vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity High
Availability None Checked 2026-11-06 at 23:02 UTC. The most recent advisory here was published 2026-07-29. Updated continuously from NVD, GHSA, OSV and CNA feeds.
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