CVE-2022-40898

Name
CVE-2022-40898
Description
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://pypi.org/project/wheel/
MISC https://github.com/pypa/wheel/blob/main/src/wheel/wheelfile.py#L18
MISC https://pyup.io/posts/pyup-discovers-redos-vulnerabilities-in-top-python-packages/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:wheel_project:wheel:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:* py3-wheel >= None < 0.38.1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
py3-wheel 3.16-main 0.37.1-r0 psykose <alice@ayaya.dev> possibly vulnerable
py3-wheel 3.15-main 0.36.2-r2 Antoine Fontaine <antoine.fontaine@epfl.ch> possibly vulnerable
py3-wheel 3.14-main 0.36.2-r2 Antoine Fontaine <antoine.fontaine@epfl.ch> possibly vulnerable