Issued:
2026-02-18
Updated:
2026-02-18

RHSA-2026:2865 - Important: python-wheel security update

Synopsis

Important: python-wheel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for python-wheel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

  • wheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking (CVE-2026-24049)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support10.0x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support10.0ppc64le
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support10.0s390x
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support10.0aarch64

Updated Packages

  • python-wheel-0.41.2-5.el10_0.1.src.rpm
  • python3-wheel-0.41.2-5.el10_0.1.noarch.rpm
  • python3-wheel-wheel-0.41.2-5.el10_0.1.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information