CVE-2022-40898: pypa/wheel vulnerable to Regular Expression denial of service (ReDoS)

CVE-2022-40898 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2022-12-23

An issue discovered in Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Wheel 0.37.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via attacker controlled input to wheel cli.

Vendors: PyPI.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2022-40898 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2022-40898 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2022-40898?
Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 23 December 2022.
Which products and versions are affected?
wheel (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.38.1.
Is there a fix for CVE-2022-40898?
Yes. wheel (PyPI): upgrade to 0.38.1 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2022-40898?
Check whether you run wheel (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • wheel (PyPI): upgrade to 0.38.1 or later
    pip install "wheel>=0.38.1"

Affected products

  • wheel (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.38.1

Identifiers

  • CVE-2022-40898
  • GHSA-qwmp-2cf2-g9g6
  • PYSEC-2022-43017

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