vulnerabilityCVE-2026-104843
CVE-2026-104843
A flaw was found in uv. An attacker could achieve arbitrary code execution on a Windows system by tricking a user into installing a specially crafted Python wheel package. During archive extraction, files can be written outside the intended target directory, allowing an attacker to place malicious executable files into locations within the system search path (PATH).
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