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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-13346
medium Nessus Plugin ID 330733
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Synopsis
The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.Description
The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.- 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. This vulnerability requires downloading or installing a package from a malicious package index to succeed, malicious packages alone are not able to exploit this vulnerability. Note that this vulnerability only materially impacts users running `pip download` with the `--only-binary` option as installing source distributions from an untrusted index is already an unsafe operation that executes code during install time. (CVE-2026-13346)
Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.
Solution
There is no known solution at this time.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-13346
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 330733
File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_13346.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Misc.
Published: 7/29/2026
Updated: 7/30/2026
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5
Percentile: 93.84
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 5.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-13346
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.4
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.6
Threat Score: 1.6
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pipenv, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-pip, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python-pip, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pip, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pip, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:platform-python-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pip
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2026
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2026-13346