ALAS2-2025-3023


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-3023
Advisory Released Date: 2025-10-14
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-10-14
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

When extracting a tar archive pip may not check symbolic links point into the extraction directory if the tarfile module doesn't implement PEP 706.
Note that upgrading pip to a "fixed" version for this vulnerability doesn't fix all known vulnerabilities that are remediated by using a Python version that implements PEP 706.

Note that this is a vulnerability in pip's fallback implementation of tar extraction for Python versions that don't implement PEP 706
and therefore are not secure to all vulnerabilities in the Python 'tarfile' module. If you're using a Python version that implements PEP 706
then pip doesn't use the "vulnerable" fallback code.

Mitigations include upgrading to a version of pip that includes the fix, upgrading to a Python version that implements PEP 706 (Python >=3.9.17, >=3.10.12, >=3.11.4, or >=3.12),
applying the linked patch, or inspecting source distributions (sdists) before installation as is already a best-practice. (CVE-2025-8869)


Affected Packages:

python-pip


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-pip or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-3023 to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    python2-pip-20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.13.noarch
    python3-pip-20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.13.noarch
    python-pip-wheel-20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.13.noarch

src:
    python-pip-20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.13.src