Advisories for Pypi/Wheel package

2026

Wheel Affected by Arbitrary File Permission Modification via Path Traversal in wheel unpack

Vulnerability Type: Path Traversal (CWE-22) leading to Arbitrary File Permission Modification. Root Cause Component: wheel.cli.unpack.unpack function. Affected Packages: wheel (Upstream source) setuptools (Downstream, vendors wheel) Severity: High (Allows modifying system file permissions).

2022

pypa/wheel vulnerable to Regular Expression denial of service (ReDoS)

Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Wheel is a reference implementation of the Python wheel packaging standard. Wheel 0.37.1 and earlier are vulnerable to a Regular Expression denial of service via attacker controlled input to the wheel cli. The vulnerable regex is used to verify the validity of Wheel file names. This has been patched in version 0.38.1.