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setuptools 65.4.1 vulnerabilities, and the version that fixes all of them

setuptools 65.4.1 has 4 known vulnerabilities (3 rated high or critical); 83.0.0 fixes all of them.

PyPI (opens in a new tab) describes it as “Most extensible Python build backend with support for C/C++ extension modules”

Known vulnerabilities
4
3 rated high or critical
Released
Sep 30, 2022
Latest is 84.2.0
Licence
MIT
OpenSSF Scorecard
4.4/10
pypa/setuptools (opens in a new tab)
Dependencies
None
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

83.0.0 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.

  • 65.7.0

    Newest 65.x release. Released Jan 11, 2023.

    3 known vulnerabilities, worst rated warning

  • 83.0.0Upgrade to this

    Fixes all 4 known vulnerabilities. Released Jul 4, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 84.2.0

    Latest release. Released Oct 19, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

83.0.0 came out on Jul 4, 2026. A coding agent trained before then doesn’t know it exists, so it may suggest an older release. AI knowledge cutoff dates

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Findings

Every advisory for setuptools 65.4.1

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. CriticalCVE-2022-40897 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-r9hx-vwmv-q579EPSS: top 16%

    pypa/setuptools vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

    Fixed in 65.5.1. Published Dec 23, 2022.

  2. CriticalCVE-2024-6345 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-cx63-2mw6-8hw5EPSS: top 21%

    setuptools vulnerable to Command Injection via package URL

    Fixed in 70.0.0. Published Jul 15, 2024.

  3. CriticalCVE-2025-47273 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-5rjg-fvgr-3xxfEPSS: top 25%

    setuptools has a path traversal vulnerability in PackageIndex.download that leads to Arbitrary File Write

    Fixed in 78.1.1. Published May 19, 2025.

  4. WarningCVE-2026-59890 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-h35f-9h28-mq5cEPSS: top 67%

    setuptools: MANIFEST.in exclusion bypass in sdist via Unicode normalization collision (NFC/NFD) on macOS APFS/HFS+

    Fixed in 83.0.0. Published Jul 21, 2026.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly setuptools 65.4.1, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and PyPI. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against PyPI, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.