Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting pdm package, versions [,2.27.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PDM-17670529
  • published29 Jun 2026
  • disclosed11 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-47781  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pdm to version 2.27.0 or higher.

Overview

pdm is an A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection via the load_plugins process. An attacker can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application by placing malicious .pth files in the project plugin directory, which are processed and executed before normal command-line interface handling begins.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1