USN-8221-1

It was discovered that wheel did not correctly handle certain file paths. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS / wheel

Package

Name: wheel
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/wheel@0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

0.*

0.41.0-2

0.41.2-1

0.42.0-1

0.42.0-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "python-wheel-common",
            "binary_version": "0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-wheel",
            "binary_version": "0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-wheel-whl",
            "binary_version": "0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-8221-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2026-24049",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}