CVE-2026-24049High· 7.1▾ MidnightPoC availablewheel 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 e…
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 39.1 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 4.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
0.3%
1 GitHub repo
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.3% → 0.4%
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.
wheel >= 0.40.0, < 0.46.2Upgrade past the affected range:
wheel 0.46.2Affected packages:
wheel >= 0.40.0, < 0.46.2Patched in:
wheel 0.46.2Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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