Known Vulnerable Dependency: setuptools==68.0.0 — 6 advisory(ies): CVE-2025-47273 (setuptools has a path traversal vulnerability in PackageIndex.download that lead); CVE-2024-6345 (setuptools vulnerable to Command Injection via package URL); CVE-2026-59890 (setuptools: MANIFEST.in exclusion bypass in sdist via Unicode normalization coll) +3 more
- Category
- Supply Chain
- Confidence
- 98% confidence
- Finding
The build configuration explicitly pins setuptools to a version affected by known command-injection and path-traversal vulnerabilities. If attacker-controlled package URLs or downloads reach the affected setuptools functionality during a build, exploitation could execute commands or write files outside the intended directory, potentially compromising developer or CI credentials. This is a build-time exposure rather than proof of an exploitable runtime path; the supplied file does not establish that the vulnerable functionality is invoked.
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