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.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20202-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2026-1703: files may be extracted outside the installation directory when installing and extracting     maliciously       crafted wheel archives (bsc#1257599).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2026:0420-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2026-1703: Fixed a potential path traversal in python-pip. (bsc#1257599)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2026-1703)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
299130	openSUSE 16 Security Update : python-pip (openSUSE-SU-2026:20202-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
298602	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python-pip (SUSE-SU-2026:0420-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
297581	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-1703	Nessus	Misc.	low

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