Vulnerability CVE-2022-40898
Published: 2022-12-23

Description:
An issue discovered in Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Wheel 0.37.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via attacker controlled input to wheel cli.

 References:
https://pypi.org/project/wheel/
https://github.com/pypa/wheel/blob/main/src/wheel/wheelfile.py#L18
https://pyup.io/posts/pyup-discovers-redos-vulnerabilities-in-top-python-packages/
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