Bug 2432101

Summary:	CVE-2026-24049 auditwheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking [fedora-43]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component:	auditwheel	Assignee:	Miro Hrončok <mhroncok>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	43	CC:	mhroncok, python-packagers-sig
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["68c36e5e-ac35-42b4-ba4e-ef0edd5b3f06"]}
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Bug Blocks:	2431959

Description Jon Moroney 2026-01-22 18:10:38 UTC

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Comment 1 Lumír Balhar 2026-02-05 13:07:02 UTC

The wheel version bundled in auditwheel is too old to have the vulnerability. The bundled version is 0.36.0, and the first vulnerable version is 0.40.0.