# wheel (PyPI) vulnerabilities

2 known vulnerabilities (2 high), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: not known (cve.now hasn't read this package's releases)
- Newest unaffected release: not known without release data
- Weekly downloads: 88M
- Dependents: 11.4K
- Registry: https://pypi.org/project/wheel/

## Advisories (2)

### [CVE-2026-24049](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-24049): wheel Allows Arbitrary File Permission Modification via Path Traversal

- Severity: High 7.1
- Published: Jan 22, 2026
- Affected: from 0.40.0, fixed in 0.46.2.

### [CVE-2022-40898](https://cve.now/CVE-2022-40898): An issue discovered in Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Wheel 0.37.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via…

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Dec 22, 2022
- Affected: fixed in 0.38.1.

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