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setuptools

Latest secure version 82.0.1

Most extensible Python build backend with support for C/C++ extension modules

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Vulnerabilities (Public)

Known vulnerabilities and security issues detected in the extension's dependencies and code.

Vulnerability IDAdvisoryAffected Versions
CVE-2025-47273Affected versions of Setuptools are vulnerable to Path Traversal via PackageIndex.download(). The impact is Arbitrary File Overwrite: An attacker would be allowed to write files to arbitrary locations…
High
<78.1.1
CVE-2024-6345Affected versions of Setuptools allow for remote code execution via its download functions. These functions, which are used to download packages from URLs provided by users or retrieved from package i…
High
<70.0.0
CVE-2022-40897Setuptools 65.5.1 includes a fix for CVE-2022-40897: Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or cu…
Medium
<65.5.1
CVE-2013-1633Setuptools version 0.7 includes a fix for CVE-2013-1633: Easy_install in setuptools before 0.7 uses HTTP to retrieve packages from the PyPI repository, and does not perform integrity checks on package…
Medium
<0.7

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