Caching with pip started erroring on Windows

[Molkree]

Description:
setup-python Action with pip caching enabled started failing on Windows. I don't know when exactly it started, it was working at Feb 2, 7:04 UTC and was failing at Feb 3, 17:35 UTC.

Maybe the virtual environment in the hosted runner might be the culprit? Between the two above linked runs, it is the only difference. Working run had version 20220123.1 and failing run has 20220131.1. According to the diff the new env has pip 22.0.2 and the old one had 21.3.1.

Action version:
v2 f382193

Platform:

• Ubuntu
• macOS
• Windows

Runner type:

• Hosted
• Self-hosted

Tools version:

3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10

Repro steps:
Here's a small repo with workflow that fails: link.
Link to failing run.

Expected behavior:
No errors.

Actual behavior:

Successfully setup CPython (3.10.1)
C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.10.1\x64\Scripts\pip.exe cache dir
Error: The process 'C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.10.1\x64\Scripts\pip.exe' failed with exit code 3221225477

[Molkree]

Oh, it seems like there is already a bug report over at the virtual-environments repo.