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SCA: security update for wheel (GHSA-8rrh-rw8j-w5fx)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436897

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - wheel is a command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files, as defined in PEP 427. In versions
 0.40.0 through 0.46.1, the unpack function is vulnerable to file permission modification through
 mishandling of file permissions after extraction. The logic blindly trusts the filename from the archive
 header for the chmod operation, even though the extraction process itself might have sanitized the path.
 Attackers can craft a malicious wheel file that, when unpacked, changes the permissions of critical system
 files (e.g., /etc/passwd, SSH keys, config files), allowing for Privilege Escalation or arbitrary code
 execution by modifying now-writable scripts. This issue has been fixed in version 0.46.2. (CVE-2026-24049)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8rrh-rw8j-w5fx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 436897

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/22/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.29

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-24049

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-24049

cwe: CWE-22