Fedora 42: uv Critical Path Traversal Issue CVE-2025-59825 Advisory

An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust.

Designed as a drop-in replacement for common pip and pip-tools workflows.

Highlights:

\u2022 \u2696\ufe0f Drop-in replacement for common pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv commands.

\u2022 \u26a1\ufe0f 10-100x faster than pip and pip-tools (pip-compile and pip-sync).

\u2022 \U0001f4be Disk-space efficient, with a global cache for dependency deduplication.

\u2022 \U0001f40d Installable via curl, pip, pipx, etc. uv is a static binary that can be

installed without Rust or Python.

\u2022 \U0001f9ea Tested at-scale against the top 10,000 PyPI packages.

\u2022 \U0001f5a5\ufe0f Support for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

\u2022 \U0001f9f0 Advanced features such as dependency version overrides and alternative

resolution strategies.

\u2022 \u2049\ufe0f Best-in-class error messages with a conflict-tracking resolver.

\u2022 \U0001f91d Support for a wide range of advanced pip features, including editable

installs, Git dependencies, direct URL dependencies, local dependencies,

constraints, source distributions, HTML and JSON indexes, and more.

Security update for path traversal CVE-2025-59825 / GHSA-3wgq-wrwc-vqmv.