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High ALAS2023-2026-1414 1 CVE

Important: python3.13-wheel security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 5, 2026 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-24049: wheel is a command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files, as defined in PEP 427. In versions 0.46.1 and below, the unpack function is vulnerable to file permission modification through mishandling of file permissions after extraction. The logic blindly trusts the filename from the archive header for the chmod operation, even though the extraction process itself might have sanitized the path. Attackers can craft a malicious wheel file that, when unpacked, changes the permissions of critical system files (e.g., /etc/passwd, SSH keys, config files), allowing for Privilege Escalation or arbitrary code execution by modifying now-writable scripts. This issue has been fixed in version 0.46.2.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3.13-wheel 1:0.43.0-104.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3.13-wheel-wheel 1:0.43.0-104.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-24049.html