All the vulnerabilites related to pypa - setuptools
cve-2025-47273
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-17 15:46
Modified
2025-05-28 15:03
Summary
setuptools has a path traversal vulnerability in PackageIndex.download that leads to Arbitrary File Write
Impacted products
pypasetuptools
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