Medium
6.5
Astral uv before 0.8.22 contains a path traversal vulnerability in source distribution (sdist)...
CVE-2025-71437
First seen on SecPulse
Original description The description as published by the source.
Astral uv before 0.8.22 contains a path traversal vulnerability in source distribution (sdist) tar extraction that allows a specially crafted sequence of symlinks to redirect file writes outside the intended extraction prefix. Attackers can publish a malicious sdist that, when installed by a victim, writes arbitrary files to filesystem locations outside the installation prefix.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
References
- web github.com
- web vulncheck.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com