Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2025-1216
Advisory Released Date: 2025-10-14
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-10-14
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
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update python-pip --releasever 2023.9.20251014 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-1216 --releasever 2023.9.20251014 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation
noarch:
python3-pip-wheel-21.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.14.noarch
python3-pip-21.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.14.noarch
src:
python-pip-21.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.14.src