CVE-2022-40898
pypa/wheel vulnerable to Regular Expression denial of service (ReDoS)
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.20%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2022-40898
To remediate CVE-2022-40898, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/wheel—no fix listed
- —upgrade to 0.38.1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.38.1 or later
Is CVE-2022-40898 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0
- from 0, < 0.38.1
- from 0, < 0.38.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |