CVE-2022-40898

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

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.

Patch Available

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Score

Severity

Ecosystem

Python

Publish Date

December 22, 2022

Modified Date

November 7, 2023

Score Vector

Affected Versions