CVE-2022-40898

python-wheel: remote attackers can cause denial of service via attacker controlled input to wheel cli

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 21, 2022

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption