CVE-2022-40898: Wheel Project Wheel

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wheel Project Wheel: before 0.38.1 (fixed in 0.38.1)

Published 2022-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.