Input validation error in wheel - CVE-2022-40898

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Input validation error in wheel - CVE-2022-40898

Published: January 20, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU71377
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40898
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input passed to wheel cli. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

wheel
ObjectScale
Cloud Pak for Network Automation
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
Platform Automation Toolkit
Storage Ceph
Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Oracle Solaris
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
Ubuntu
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Realtime Extension
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA)
Spectrum Discover
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Maximo Application Suite
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup and Restore for OpenShift
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup and Restore for Kubernetes
IBM Robotic Process Automation
Splunk Enterprise
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages
python-pip (Ubuntu package)
python3-wheel (Ubuntu package)
python-wheel (Ubuntu package)
python-pip-whl (Ubuntu package)
python3-pip (Ubuntu package)
rhc-worker-playbook (Red Hat package)
python3-wheel
python-wheel
python2-wheel
python-wheel-wheel
rh-python38-python-wheel (Red Hat package)
python-wheel (Red Hat package)
rh-python38-python-cryptography (Red Hat package)
rh-python38-python-requests (Red Hat package)
rh-python38-python (Red Hat package)
rh-python38-python-pip (Red Hat package)
python3-pip-whl (Ubuntu package)
rh-python38-python-setuptools (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2022-40898

Install updates from vendor's website.

wheel - update to 0.38.1
ObjectScale - update to 1.3.0
Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) - update to 5.4.2
Splunk Enterprise - addressed in versions 9.0.9, 9.1.4, 9.2.1
python-pip (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.7
python3-wheel (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1, 0.34.2-1ubuntu0.1, 0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.04.1, 0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.10.1
python-wheel (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1
python-pip-whl (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.7, 20.0.2-5ubuntu1.8
python3-pip (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1.18.04.7, 20.0.2-5ubuntu1.8, 22.0.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2, 22.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2
rhc-worker-playbook (Red Hat package) - update to 0.1.10-1.el9_5
python3-wheel - addressed in versions 0.30.0-2.7.1, 0.32.3-150100.6.5.1
python-wheel - update to 0.30.0-2.7.1
python-wheel - update to 0.31.1-6
python3-wheel - update to 0.31.1-6
python2-wheel - update to 0.31.1-6
python-wheel-wheel - update to 0.31.1-6
python2-wheel - update to 0.32.3-150100.6.5.1
rh-python38-python-wheel (Red Hat package) - update to 0.33.6-9.el7
python-wheel (Red Hat package) - update to 0.36.2-8.el9
python-wheel - update to 0.37.1-1
Spectrum Discover - addressed in versions 2.0.4.8, 2.1.1
Cloud Pak for Network Automation - update to 2.4.4
rh-python38-python-cryptography (Red Hat package) - update to 2.8-6.el7
rh-python38-python-requests (Red Hat package) - update to 2.22.0-11.el7
rh-python38-python (Red Hat package) - update to 3.8.18-2.el7
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - update to 4.0
Platform Automation Toolkit - addressed in versions 4.0.13, 4.1.13, 4.2.8, 4.3.5
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.6.2
Storage Ceph - update to 6.1z3
IBM Maximo Application Suite - addressed in versions 8.8.6, 8.9.2
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup and Restore for OpenShift - update to 10.1.12.4
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup and Restore for Kubernetes - update to 10.1.12.4
rh-python38-python-pip (Red Hat package) - update to 19.3.1-4.el7
Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak - addressed in versions 21.0.7.8, 23.0.9
IBM Robotic Process Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.7.8, 23.0.9
python3-pip-whl (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 22.0.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2, 22.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2
rh-python38-python-setuptools (Red Hat package) - update to 41.6.0-8.el7

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