cve-2025-47273
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-17 15:46
Modified
2025-05-28 15:03
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
setuptools has a path traversal vulnerability in PackageIndex.download that leads to Arbitrary File Write
References
Impacted products
| ▼ | Vendor | Product |
|---|---|---|
| pypa | setuptools |
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