CVE-2022-40898

Summary

CVECVE-2022-40898
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-23 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-30 22:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wheel Project Wheel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
wheel/wheelfile.py at main · pypa/wheel · GitHub MISC github.com
wheel · PyPI MISC pypi.org
PyUp Discovers ReDoS Vulnerabilities in Top Python Packages MISC pyup.io
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 161085 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-wheel (ELSA-2023-6712)
  • 183484 Debian Security Update for wheel (CVE-2022-40898)
  • 199128 Ubuntu Security Notification for wheel Vulnerability (USN-5821-1)
  • 242344 Red Hat Update for rh-python38-python (RHSA-2023:6793)
  • 355641 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-wheel : ALAS2023-2023-261
  • 356761 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-wheel : ALAS2-2023-2362
  • 672872 EulerOS Security Update for python-wheel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1608)
  • 672895 EulerOS Security Update for python-wheel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1789)
  • 672960 EulerOS Security Update for python-wheel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1767)
  • 672995 EulerOS Security Update for python-wheel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1852)
  • 673010 EulerOS Security Update for python-wheel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1877)
  • 673030 EulerOS Security Update for python-wheel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1961)
  • 673057 EulerOS Security Update for python-wheel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1983)
  • 753533 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-wheel (SUSE-SU-2023:0088-1)
  • 753761 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-wheel (SUSE-SU-2023:0088-2)
  • 904765 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for python-wheel (12098)
  • 941415 AlmaLinux Security Update for python-wheel (ALSA-2023:6712)
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