Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-102930

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments. Prior to 21.7.12, downloadwheel accepts pip and setuptools seed wheels fetched for...

Rocky Linux 9 [CIQ] Security Update: python3.12-wheel / python3.12-wheel-wheel (crlsa-2026_1939)

The Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-20261939 advisory. wheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking CVE-2026-24049 Tenable has extracted the preceding description blo...

Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: python3.12-wheel / python3.12-wheel-wheel (crlsa-2026_2090)

The Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-20262090 advisory. wheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking CVE-2026-24049 Tenable has extracted the preceding description blo...

Rocky Linux 10.1 [CIQ] Security Update: python3-wheel / python3-wheel-wheel (crlsa-2026_1902)

The Rocky Linux 10.1 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-20261902 advisory. wheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking CVE-2026-24049 Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

CVE-2026-47764

pdm is a Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards. Versions prior to 2.27.0 are vulnerable to path traversal through writetofs. InstallDestination.writetofs in src/pdm/installers/installers.py overrides the base class to add symlink/hardlink support but replaces t...

python-pip: Path traversal via malicious entry point name in pip wheel installation allows arbitrary file overwrite

A flaw was found in pip, the package installer for Python. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim into installing a malicious Python wheel. This wheel contains specially crafted entry-point names that use directory traversal or absolute paths. This allows pip to wri...

Amazon Linux 2023 : python3.11-pip, python3.11-pip-wheel (ALAS2023-2026-1839)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1839 advisory. A flaw was found in pip, the package installer for Python. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim into installing a malicious Python wheel. This wheel contains specially...

Important: python3.14-pip

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in pip, the package installer for Python. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim into installing a malicious Python wheel. This wheel contains specially crafted entry-point names that use directory traversal or absolute paths. This...

Amazon Linux 2023 : python3-pip, python3-pip-wheel (ALAS2023-2026-1837)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1837 advisory. A flaw was found in pip, the package installer for Python. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim into installing a malicious Python wheel. This wheel contains specially...

Amazon Linux 2 : python-pip, --advisory ALAS2-2026-3358 (ALAS-2026-3358)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2026-3358 advisory. A flaw was found in pip, the package installer for Python. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim into installing a malicious Python wheel. This wheel contains specially...

Directory Traversal

Overview pdm is an A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in the writetofs function. An attacker can write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting a malicious wheel file...

PT-2026-47548

Impact In versions of uv prior to 0.11.15, when installing a distribution containing an entry point specification under console scripts or gui scripts, uv would place the generated entry point according to the given name even if doing so resulted in a path outside of the environment's scripts...

CVE-2026-8643

A flaw was found in pip, the package installer for Python. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim into installing a malicious Python wheel. This wheel contains specially crafted entry-point names that use directory traversal or absolute paths. This allows pip to wri...

OceanLotus suspected of using PyPI to deliver ZiChatBot malware

Introduction Through our daily threat hunting, we noticed that, beginning in July 2025, a series of malicious wheel packages were uploaded to PyPI the Python Package Index. We shared this information with the public security community, and the malware was removed from the repository. We submitted...

wheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking

A path traversal flaw has been discovered in the python wheel too. 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...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2026:20423-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.12-wheel security update

An update for python3.12-wheel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: python-wheel security update

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 availab...

RHEL 10 : python-wheel (RHSA-2026:2865)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:2865 advisory. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic da...

RHEL 9 : python3.12-wheel (RHSA-2026:2710)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:2710 advisory. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic dat...