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馃悰 fix(seed): verify downloaded wheel digests - #3251
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download_wheel() ran pip download and handed the result straight to the seeder with no check on the bytes it got back. Everything else in this path is verified: the embedded pip/setuptools wheels carry a BUNDLE_SHA256 checked on every load, but a wheel fetched over the network for the periodic-update or --download path had no equivalent. A compromised index, a stale mirror, or a MITM'd download could substitute a different file under the same name and have it seeded into every virtual environment created afterward. verify_wheel_digest() computes the downloaded file's sha256 and compares it against the digest PyPI's public JSON API reports for that exact distribution, version, and filename - an independent source of truth regardless of which index actually served the file. A missing or unreachable PyPI record only means the check cannot run, since a private index PyPI has never heard of is a legitimate setup (air-gapped installs, corporate mirrors), so that case is logged and the wheel is let through unverified, matching the existing best-effort posture of the periodic-update feature. An actual mismatch is fatal: the wheel is never cached or seeded. This intentionally does not touch how pip resolves its index (PIP_INDEX_URL and friends stay untouched) - pointing the seed download at an internal mirror is a legitimate, common setup, and the digest check is the correct backstop regardless of which index a wheel came from.
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The digest is always taken from public PyPI, even when pip download was deliberately configured to use a private index or mirror. A private repository can legitimately publish a rebuilt/patched wheel under the same distribution, version, and filename as PyPI; if PyPI has that filename, this code rejects the private artifact even though it came from the configured source. Please bind verification to the index that supplied the wheel (for example via index metadata/pip reporting), or only make the PyPI digest authoritative when PyPI was actually the source, and add a private-index same-filename regression.
verify_wheel_digest() treated PyPI's published digest as authoritative for any wheel matching a given distribution, version, and filename, regardless of where pip actually fetched it from. A private index can legitimately serve a rebuilt or repackaged wheel under that same identity - an internal mirror re-signing a release for policy reasons, for example - and the check would reject that legitimate artifact just because it differs from the public PyPI copy, even though it came from exactly the source it was configured to come from. download_wheel() now skips the PyPI cross-check whenever PIP_INDEX_URL, PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL, or PIP_INDEX names a custom index. This only catches the common, explicit way of pointing pip elsewhere; a pip.conf file has the same effect and stays invisible here, so this is a conservative signal against false rejections, not a guarantee the check runs whenever it safely could.
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download_wheel() suppressed three type errors around result, whose inferred type stayed Optional despite the code already assuming it was never None. An explicit None check narrows it for real and turns what used to be a confusing AttributeError, if find_compatible_in_house ever came up empty, into a clear RuntimeError. Also drops a debug log on the custom-index skip path that added nothing a comment did not already say. verify_wheel_digest() and _pypi_release_entry_for_wheel() suppressed two more by subscripting values PyPI's JSON response types as bare object. isinstance checks narrow the digest and release-list lookups properly, so ty can see they are safe, and replace the previous try/except (KeyError, TypeError) with the same intent expressed directly: malformed PyPI JSON is treated as unverifiable, not fatal.
Merged the version-missing-from-releases case into the existing skips_when_unverifiable parametrize table by giving _pypi_release_response an optional version argument, instead of a separate near-duplicate test function. Added a test for the RuntimeError download_wheel now raises when no downloaded wheel can be identified at all - that branch had no coverage.
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download_wheel()handed pip's output straight to the seeder with no integrity check. A compromised index or MITM'd download could substitute a different wheel under the same name.verify_wheel_digest()checks the downloaded sha256 against PyPI's public JSON record for that filename. Missing record: logged, not fatal (private indexes are legitimate). Mismatch: fatal, wheel is never seeded.Skipped entirely when
PIP_INDEX_URL,PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL, orPIP_INDEXis set - a private index can legitimately serve a different, intentionally rebuilt wheel under the same identity, and PyPI's digest isn't the right check for a wheel that never came from PyPI.Tracked as GHSA-94p9-xgh2-xp45.