pdm — security advisory
pdm is a Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards. Versions prior to 2.27.0 are vulnerable to path traversal through write_to_fs. InstallDestination.write_to_fs() in src/pdm/installers/installers.py overrides the base class to add symlink/hardlink support but replaces the safe _path_with_destdir() (which validates via Path.resolve() + is_relative_to()) with a bare os.path.join() that performs no path validation. A malicious wheel with traversal entries can write arbitrary files. This issue has been fixed in version 2.27.0.
- Products
- pdm
- Affected versions
- 2.2.1+ds1-1, 2.2.1+ds1-2, 2.20.0.post1+ds1-1, 2.20.0.post1+ds1-2, 2.20.1+ds1-1, 2.20.1+ds1-2, 2.23.1-1, 2.23.1-2, 2.23.1-3, 2.23.1-4, 2.26.2-1, 2.26.6-1, 2.27.0-1, 2.28.0-1, 2.28.1-1, 2.29.0-1, 2.29.2-1, 2.29.3-1
- Fixed versions
- 2.27.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-47764
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
pdm is a Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards. Versions prior to 2.27.0 are vulnerable to path traversal through write_to_fs. InstallDestination.write_to_fs() in src/pdm/installers/installers.py overrides the base class to add symlink/hardlink support but replaces the safe _path_with_destdir() (which validates via Path.resolve() + is_relative_to()) with a bare os.path.join() that performs no path validation. A malicious wheel with traversal entries can write arbitrary files. This issue has been fixed in version 2.27.0.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-47764
pdm
Fixed versions: Not specified
pdm
Fixed versions: Not specified
pdm
Fixed versions: 2.27.0-1
Complete source record
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