Answer in brief
CVE-2026-24049 records a High severity (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability in wheel Allows Arbitrary File Permission Modification via Path Traversal. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps pypa/wheel (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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Answer in brief
CVE-2026-24049 records a High severity (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability in wheel Allows Arbitrary File Permission Modification via Path Traversal. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps pypa/wheel (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.
CVSS is 7.1. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps pypa/wheel (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:wheel_project:wheel:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:* | Not reported | Not reported |
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| pypa/wheelgeneric | >= 0.40.0, < 0.46.2 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jan 22, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 5, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jul 1, 2026
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.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.
CVSS is 7.1. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps pypa/wheel (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:wheel_project:wheel:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:* | Not reported | Not reported |
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| pypa/wheelgeneric | >= 0.40.0, < 0.46.2 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jan 22, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 5, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jul 1, 2026
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.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.