Bug 2432101 - CVE-2026-24049 auditwheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking [fedora-43]
Summary: CVE-2026-24049 auditwheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Exec...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: auditwheel
Version: 43
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Miro Hrončok
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Blocks: CVE-2026-24049
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Reported: 2026-01-22 18:10 UTC by Jon Moroney
Modified: 2026-02-05 13:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-02-05 13:07:02 UTC
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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.
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