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GHSA-qwmp-2cf2-g9g6

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

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-40898

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI wheel < 0.38.1 0.38.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.