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High 7.1

CVE-2026-24049 Public exploit

wheel Allows Arbitrary File Permission Modification via Path Traversal

wheel is a command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files, as defined in PEP 427. In versions 0.40.0 through 0.46.1, the unpack function is vulnerable to file permission modification through mishandling of file permissions after extraction. The logic b…

pypa wheel open-webui katib-suggestion-hyperopt Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi PyPI

Jan 22, 2026
High 7.5

CVE-2022-40898

pypa/wheel vulnerable to Regular Expression denial of service (ReDoS)

An issue discovered in Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Wheel 0.37.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via attacker controlled input to wheel cli.

python-pip python-wheel wheel wheel Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux PyPI

Dec 22, 2022