Ubuntu USN · USN-8221-1

wheel vulnerability

Published: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:11

CVE-2026-24049

Summary

wheel could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Details

It was discovered that wheel did not correctly handle certain file paths. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Recommended actions per Ubuntu release

StackPatch playbook auto-generated per release codename and per affected package.

Ubuntu noble

wheel→0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y wheel=0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
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python-wheel-common→0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python-wheel-common=0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
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python3-wheel→0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python3-wheel=0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
Sign up at https://ubuntu.com/pro. Free for personal + small-team use.
python3-wheel-whl→0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python3-wheel-whl=0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
Sign up at https://ubuntu.com/pro. Free for personal + small-team use.

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