Bug 2432100

Summary:	CVE-2026-24049 python3.15: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking [fedora-42]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component:	python3.15	Assignee:	Python Maintainers <python-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	42	CC:	ksurma, lbalhar, mhroncok, python-maint, python-packagers-sig
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Description Jon Moroney 2026-01-22 18:10:33 UTC

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Comment 1 Lumír Balhar 2026-02-19 14:19:42 UTC

setuptools 80.10.2 bundles wheel 0.46.3, where this vulnerability is fixed, but Python 3.15 still bundles version 79.

Comment 2 Miro Hrončok 2026-02-19 19:10:17 UTC

python3.15 only bundles setuptools for its own tests. It is shipped in /usr/lib64/python3.15/test/wheeldata/setuptools-79.0.1-py3-none-any.whl and not intended for user usage. This CVE is moot.