CVE-2026-24049

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CVSS 7.1EPSS <1%

Published 2026-01-22Updated 2026-02-05

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Vulnerability details

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

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CVSS

7.1

EPSS

<1%

Published

2026-01-22

Updated

2026-02-05

CNA

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Vendors

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1 product

CPEs

cpe:/a:redhat:discovery:2::el10

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:discovery:2::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.6::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:discovery:2::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream

cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::appstream

cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6::appstream

cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1

cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb

cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::crb

cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6::crb

cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb

cpe:/a:redhat:network_observ_optr:1.11::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:ai_inference_server:3.2::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:rhdh:1.8::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:2.25::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:3.3::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:3.4::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.16::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.17::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.18::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.19::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.20::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.21::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3.27::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:stf:1.5::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:quay:3.12::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:quay:3.13::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:quay:3.14::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:quay:3.15::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:quay:3.16::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:quay:3.10::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:quay:3.9::el8

cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6.18::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:trusted_artifact_signer:1.2::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:trusted_artifact_signer:1.3::el9

cpe:/a:redhat:logging:5

cpe:/a:redhat:migration_toolkit_virtualization:2

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_lightspeed

cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_cluster_security:4

cpe:/a:redhat:ai_inference_server:3

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux_ai:3

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4

cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el10

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el10

cpe:/a:redhat:workload_availability_far:0

cpe:/a:redhat:multicluster_engine

cpe:/a:redhat:service_mesh:2

cpe:/a:redhat:service_mesh:3

cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

cpe:/a:redhat:quay:3

cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6

cpe:/a:redhat:stf:1.5

cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4

cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6

cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:8.1::el9

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