CVE-2026-24049

Fixed in a distro release EPSS <1%CVSS 7.1

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.

Published 2026-01-22 · CVE record · OSV

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 Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Network Observability (NETOBSERV) 1.11.0, Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1, Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8, Red Hat Discovery 2, Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25, Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3, Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.27, Red Hat OpenStack 1.5, Red Hat Quay 3.10, Red Hat Quay 3.12, Red Hat Quay 3.13, Red Hat Quay 3.14, Red Hat Quay 3.15, Red Hat Quay 3.16, Red Hat Quay 3.9, Red Hat Satellite 6.18, Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.2, Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3, Red Hat Fence Agents Remediation Operator, 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 Advanced Cluster Security 4, Red Hat AI Inference Server, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3, Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI), Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, Red Hat Quay 3, Red Hat Satellite 6, Red Hat Service Telemetry Framework 1.5

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