python3.12-wheel/CVE-2026-24049.patch
Miro Hrončok a176283ac5 Security fix for CVE-2026-24049
(cherry picked from Fedora commit a01db9d3920d0d685a592084bf27253ad867a391)
2026-01-26 14:59:44 +01:00

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From 24ab89cdacfa68857b4c7b5fb5234a75193dc941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Gr=C3=B6nholm?= <alex.gronholm@nextday.fi>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:41:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed security issue around wheel unpack (#675)
A maliciously crafted wheel could cause the permissions of a file outside the unpack tree to be altered.
Fixes CVE-2026-24049.
(cherry picked from commit 7a7d2de96b22a9adf9208afcc9547e1001569fef)
---
docs/news.rst | 5 +++++
src/wheel/cli/unpack.py | 4 ++--
tests/cli/test_unpack.py | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index 9e5488a..1033520 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
Release Notes
=============
+**BACKPORTS**
+
+- Fixed ``wheel unpack`` potentially altering the permissions of files outside of the
+ destination tree with maliciously crafted wheels (CVE-2026-24049)
+
**0.41.2 (2023-08-22)**
- Fixed platform tag detection for GraalPy and 32-bit python running on an aarch64
diff --git a/src/wheel/cli/unpack.py b/src/wheel/cli/unpack.py
index d48840e..83dc742 100644
--- a/src/wheel/cli/unpack.py
+++ b/src/wheel/cli/unpack.py
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ def unpack(path: str, dest: str = ".") -> None:
destination = Path(dest) / namever
print(f"Unpacking to: {destination}...", end="", flush=True)
for zinfo in wf.filelist:
- wf.extract(zinfo, destination)
+ target_path = Path(wf.extract(zinfo, destination))
# Set permissions to the same values as they were set in the archive
# We have to do this manually due to
# https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/59999
permissions = zinfo.external_attr >> 16 & 0o777
- destination.joinpath(zinfo.filename).chmod(permissions)
+ target_path.chmod(permissions)
print("OK")
diff --git a/tests/cli/test_unpack.py b/tests/cli/test_unpack.py
index ae584af..951ba29 100644
--- a/tests/cli/test_unpack.py
+++ b/tests/cli/test_unpack.py
@@ -34,3 +34,26 @@ def test_unpack_executable_bit(tmp_path):
unpack(str(wheel_path), str(tmp_path))
assert not script_path.is_dir()
assert stat.S_IMODE(script_path.stat().st_mode) == 0o755
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+ platform.system() == "Windows", reason="Windows does not support chmod()"
+)
+def test_chmod_outside_unpack_tree(tmp_path_factory: TempPathFactory) -> None:
+ wheel_path = tmp_path_factory.mktemp("build") / "test-1.0-py3-none-any.whl"
+ with WheelFile(wheel_path, "w") as wf:
+ wf.writestr(
+ "test-1.0.dist-info/METADATA",
+ "Metadata-Version: 2.4\nName: test\nVersion: 1.0\n",
+ )
+ wf.writestr("../../system-file", b"malicious data")
+
+ extract_root_path = tmp_path_factory.mktemp("extract")
+ system_file = extract_root_path / "system-file"
+ extract_path = extract_root_path / "subdir"
+ system_file.write_bytes(b"important data")
+ system_file.chmod(0o755)
+ unpack(str(wheel_path), str(extract_path))
+
+ assert system_file.read_bytes() == b"important data"
+ assert stat.S_IMODE(system_file.stat().st_mode) == 0o755
--
2.52.0