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high 7.1

CVE-2026-24049 json

wheel Allows Arbitrary File Permission Modification via Path Traversal

published 2026-01-22 9 mo ago modified 2026-09-16 54 d ago also EUVD-2026-4133 , GHSA-8rrh-rw8j-w5fx , PYSEC-2026-2047

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi wheel 0.46.2
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 10 0:2.4.3-2.el10
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 8 0:2.4.3-2.el8
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 9 0:2.4.3-2.el9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:4.6.26-1.el8ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:4.6.26-1.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 0:4.7.9-1.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 1:0.41.2-5.el10_1.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support 1:0.41.2-5.el10_0.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 0:0.41.2-4.el8_10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:0.41.2-3.el9_7.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support 0:0.41.2-3.el9_4.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support 0:0.41.2-3.el9_6.1
  • Red Hat Network Observability (NETOBSERV) 1.11.0 1771231259
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 1772160593, 1772160625, 1787772157
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 1772486590, 1772525069, 1777176989
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1 1787550654
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8 1770656494
  • Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 2 1770913597
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 1770103375, 1770786633, 1772093252, 1772093260, 1772093324, 1772093338, 1772094445, 1776338381
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 1770956034, 1778262952, 1778263271
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 1772204882
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 1779252096
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 1778709698
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 1774856889
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 1775604154
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 1774851817
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 1774891432
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.27 1774070844, 1774451954, 1774609756
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack 1.5 1777452540
  • wheel Debian 14 0.46.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-24049

  • wheel Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-24049

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.6.3-4.el8ap
  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.6, ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.6 +3 more 1.6.3-4.el9ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.6.3-4.el8ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.6, ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.6 +3 more 1.6.3-4.el9ap
  • python3.12-django ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 4.2.28-1.el8ap
  • python3.12-django ansible automation platform developer 2.6, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.6 +1 more 4.2.28-1.el9ap
  • automation-gateway ansible automation platform 2.5 2.5.20260225-1.el8ap
  • automation-gateway ansible automation platform 2.5 2.5.20260225-1.el9ap

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:3959RHSA-2026:3958RHSA-2026:2866RHSA-2026:2865RHSA-2026:2823RHSA-2026:2710

  • python-wheel SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +7 more 0.40.0-150400.13.10.1
  • python313-wheel SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7 0.44.0-150700.3.3.1
  • python-wheel SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS, SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7 +1 more 0.42.0-150600.3.3.1
  • python-wheel SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 0.45.1-160000.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0460-1SUSE-SU-2026:0425-1SUSE-SU-2026:0424-1SUSE-SU-2026:20217-1

  • python-wheel openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.46.3-1.1
  • python-wheel openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.45.1-160000.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10151-1openSUSE-SU-2026:20147-1

  • python3.12-wheel AlmaLinux 8 0.41.2-4.el8_10
  • python3.12-wheel-wheel AlmaLinux 8 0.41.2-4.el8_10
  • python3-wheel AlmaLinux 10 1:0.41.2-5.el10_1.1
  • python3-wheel-wheel AlmaLinux 10 1:0.41.2-5.el10_1.1
  • python3.12-wheel AlmaLinux 9 0.41.2-3.el9_7.1
  • python3.12-wheel-wheel AlmaLinux 9 0.41.2-3.el9_7.1

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:2090ALSA-2026:1902ALSA-2026:1939

  • python-wheel Rocky Linux 10 1:0.41.2-5.el10_1.1
  • python3.12-wheel Rocky Linux 8 0.41.2-4.el8_10
  • python3.12-wheel Rocky Linux 9 0.41.2-3.el9_7.1

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:1902RLSA-2026:2090RLSA-2026:1939

  • py3-wheel Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 0.46.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-24049

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • python-wheel Azure Linux 3.0 0.43.0-2
  • python-virtualenv Azure Linux 3.0 20.36.1-2

azure linux advisories AZL-75195AZL-77826

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-24049 updated cvss 7.1

wheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8, openshift-logging/elasticsearch6-rhel9, openshift-logging/logging-curator5-rhel9, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-proxy-rhel9, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel9-operator, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-operator-bundle Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization mtv-candidate/mtv-rhel9-operator, migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-rhel9-operator
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-to-dataverse-exporter-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-operator-bundle
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaiis/vllm-tpu-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-spyre-rhel9, rhai/base-image-rocm-rhel9, rhaiis-preview/vllm-cuda-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-26/receptor-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-24/controller-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-25/controller-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9-operator
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 taglib Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-aws-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gcp-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-azure-cuda-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-vllm-cpu-rhel9, rhoai/odh-caikit-nlp-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ta-lmes-job-rhel9, rhoai/odh-modelmesh-runtime-adapter-rhel8, rhoai/odh-trustyai-ragas-lls-provider-dsp-rhel9, rhoai/odh-pipeline-runtime-minimal-cpu-py312-rhel9, +17 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/dpu-operator, openshift4/ose-dpu-cni-rhel9, openshift4/ose-dpu-daemon-rhel9, openshift4/ose-dpu-intel-ipu-vsp-rhel9, openshift4/ose-dpu-intel-ipu-p4sdk-rhel9, openshift-enterprise-ansible-operator-container, +1 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/udi-base-rhel10
    affected: workaround, no fix available
show 26 more
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 8 discovery-cli 2.4.3-2.el8 Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 9 discovery-cli 2.4.3-2.el9 Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 10 discovery-cli 2.4.3-2.el10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2823
  • Red Hat Network Observability (NETOBSERV) 1.11.0 network-observability 1771231259
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2900
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 rhaiis 1772160593, rhaiis 1772160625, rhaiis/model-opt-cuda-rhel9 1787772157
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:61628
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 automation-controller 4.6.26-1.el8ap, automation-controller-ui 4.6.26-1.el8ap, automation-controller-cli 4.6.26-1.el8ap, automation-controller-server 4.6.26-1.el8ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.6.26-1.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 automation-controller 4.6.26-1.el9ap, automation-controller-ui 4.6.26-1.el9ap, automation-controller-cli 4.6.26-1.el9ap, automation-controller-server 4.6.26-1.el9ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.6.26-1.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:3959
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 ansible-automation-platform-26 1772486590, ansible-automation-platform-26 1772525069, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777176989
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:3960
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 automation-controller 4.7.9-1.el9ap, automation-controller-ui 4.7.9-1.el9ap, automation-controller-cli 4.7.9-1.el9ap, automation-controller-server 4.7.9-1.el9ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.7.9-1.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:3958
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1 rhceph/rhceph-8-rhel9 1787550654
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:62115
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.4) python3.12-wheel-wheel 0.41.2-3.el9_4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2866
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.6) python3.12-wheel-wheel 0.41.2-3.el9_6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2710
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8 rhdh 1770656494
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2675
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 discovery 1770913597
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2694
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) python3.12-wheel 0.41.2-4.el8_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2090
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) python3.12-wheel 0.41.2-3.el9_7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1939
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4) python3.12-wheel 0.41.2-3.el9_4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2866
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6) python3.12-wheel 0.41.2-3.el9_6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2710
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) python3.12-wheel-wheel 0.41.2-3.el9_7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1939
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10) python-wheel 0.41.2-5.el10_1.1, python3-wheel 0.41.2-5.el10_1.1, python3-wheel-wheel 0.41.2-5.el10_1.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1902
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 10.0) python-wheel 0.41.2-5.el10_0.1, python3-wheel 0.41.2-5.el10_0.1, python3-wheel-wheel 0.41.2-5.el10_0.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2865
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) python3.12-wheel-wheel 0.41.2-4.el8_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2090
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 rhoai 1770103375, rhoai 1770786633, rhoai 1772093252, rhoai 1772093260, rhoai 1772093324, rhoai 1772093338, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:10184
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai 1770956034, rhoai 1778262952, rhoai 1778263271
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:19712
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 rhoai 1772204882
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:5119
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 openshift4/ose-ansible-rhel9-operator 1779252096
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:20089
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 openshift4 1778709698
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:17599
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 openshift4 1774856889
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:6555
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 openshift4 1775604154
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:7250

14 more fixed, 43 more not affected in the full advisory

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/pypa/wheel/security/advisories/GHSA-8rrh-rw8j-w5fx referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CISA ADP 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi wheel
>=0.40.0, <0.46.2
0.46.2

Affected products

  • pypa wheel
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 10
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support
  • Red Hat Network Observability (NETOBSERV) 1.11.0
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.27
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack 1.5
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.12
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.13
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.14
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.15
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3
  • Red Hat Fence Agents Remediation Operator
  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization
  • Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes
  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.