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critical vulnerability

internetarchive Vulnerable to Directory Traversal in File.download()

Fix availableCritical · CVSS 9.4EPSS 1.6%

Published Sep 5, 2025 · updated Oct 27, 2026

What to do

  1. Upgrade to a fixed version: internetarchive 5.5.1.
  2. Redeploy and restart long-running processes so they load the fixed code.

Affected packages

PyPIinternetarchive38,187 downloads/week

Vulnerable versions
<= 5.5.0
Fixed in
5.5.1

Check your project: pip show internetarchive

Sources

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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