7.1

CVE-2026-24049: pypa wheel Path Traversal

CVSS: 7.1v3.1HighModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2026-24049SUSE-SU-2026:0424-1SUSE-SU-2026:0425-1
Published 22-01-2026Last modified 16-09-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-24049 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Path Traversal vulnerability in pypa wheel. EPSS estimates a 0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
38/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.35%
0%100%
Low · -0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1
RHSA-2026:3958RHSA-2026:3959CGA-W2X3-FVXX-QQF5

Timeline

  1. 22-01-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 metrics

9 scores · 9 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.35%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

27%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.01 pp

From 0.36% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.35%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Wheel

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard89 products
  • airflow-2< 2.11.0-r25 | < 2.11.2-r5
  • airflow-3< 3.1.6-r2
  • ansible-operator< 1.42.0-r6
  • ansible-operator-fips< 1.42.0-r4
  • apache-beam-python-3.11-sdk< 2.71.0-r0
Wolfi44 products
  • airflow-3< 3.1.6-r2
  • aws-cli-2< 2.33.1-r0
  • dask-kubernetes< 2025.7.0-r8
  • datadog-agent-7.72< 7.72.4-r7
  • datadog-agent-7.72-core-integrationsAll versions (No fix recorded)
Suse15 products
  • python-wheel&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS< 0.40.0-150400.13.10.1
  • python-wheel&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS< 0.40.0-150400.13.10.1
  • python-wheel&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS< 0.40.0-150400.13.10.1
  • python-wheel&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS< 0.40.0-150400.13.10.1
  • python-wheel&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP4< 0.40.0-150400.13.10.1
Redhat6 products
  • discovery-cli< 0:2.4.3-2.el10 | < 0:2.4.3-2.el8 | < 0:2.4.3-2.el9
  • python-wheel< 1:0.41.2-5.el10_1.1 | < 1:0.41.2-5.el10_0.1
  • python3-wheel< 1:0.41.2-5.el10_1.1 | < 1:0.41.2-5.el10_0.1
  • python3-wheel-wheel< 1:0.41.2-5.el10_1.1 | < 1:0.41.2-5.el10_0.1
  • python3.12-wheel< 0:0.41.2-3.el9_7.1 | < 0:0.41.2-4.el8_10 | < 0:0.41.2-3.el9_6.1 | < 0:0.41.2-3.el9_4.1
Opensuse3 products
  • python-wheel&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 0.42.0-150600.3.3.1 | < 0.40.0-150400.13.10.1
  • python-wheel&distro=openSUSE Leap 16.0< 0.45.1-160000.3.1
  • python-wheel&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 0.46.3-1.1
Ubuntu2 products
  • python-pipAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • wheelAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
Alpine1 product
  • py3-wheel≥ 0.40.0, < 0.46.3-r0
Debian1 product
  • wheelAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.46.3-1
Pypa1 product
  • wheel≥ 0.40.0, < 0.46.2
PyPI1 product
  • wheel≥ 0.40.0, < 0.46.2
Wheel_project1 product
  • wheel≥ 0.40.0, < 0.46.2

11 vendors · 164 products

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