Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-wheel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PYTHONWHEEL-3258754
  • published31 Jan 2023
  • disclosed21 Dec 2022

Introduced: 21 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-40898  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-wheel package and not the python-wheel package as distributed by RHEL.

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.