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CVE-2022-26184

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

Poetry v1.1.9 and below was discovered to contain an untrusted search path which causes the application to behave in unexpected ways when users execute Poetry commands in a directory containing malicious content. This vulnerability occurs when the application is ran on Windows OS.

Affected products

• python-poetry poetry: through 1.1.9

References

• https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/205/commits/fa9cb6f358ae840885c700f954317f34838caba7
• https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.1.9
• https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers/
• https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/205/commits/fa9cb6f358ae840885c700f954317f34838caba7
• https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.1.9
• https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers/

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