Spectra Assure
Community
failIncident: Removal
Scanned: 4 days ago

wheel

Artifact:
removed
key project
Command line tool for manipulating wheel files
License: Permissive (MIT)
Published: 10 months ago
Visit GitHub
See on PyPI

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses
No license compliance issues
Secrets
No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities
No known vulnerabilities detected
Hardening
No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering
No evidence of software tampering
Malware
No evidence of malware inclusion

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

removal
N/AReported By: Community

Popularity

13.99B
Total Downloads
3
Contributors
1
Declared Dependencies
9.34k
Dependents

Top issues

No issues found.

Top behaviors

See all behaviors

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
36 packages
found in
Top 100
281 packages
found in
Top 1k
1802 packages
found in
Top 10k
66.4k packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
39 packages
found in
Top 100
252 packages
found in
Top 1k
1477 packages
found in
Top 10k
53.15k packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
68 packages
found in
Top 100
533 packages
found in
Top 1k
3858 packages
found in
Top 10k
146.15k packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
14 packages
found in
Top 100
40 packages
found in
Top 1k
164 packages
found in
Top 10k
4.85k packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
20 packages
found in
Top 100
182 packages
found in
Top 1k
1802 packages
found in
Top 10k
186.71k packages
in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

FAQ for wheel

What is wheel?

Command line tool for manipulating wheel files.

Is wheel malicious or is it safe to use?

The Python package wheel has been removed from registry. It was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. The package contains risks, and the analysis results should be reviewed before it is used. Visit the Issues and Behaviors sections of the analysis for more details.

Is wheel popular?

The Python package wheel is classified as a key project because of its widespread usage and impact. wheel ranks among the top 100 projects in the Python community. It has 14B recorded downloads. A package's popularity is not a good indicator of its safety, visit the SAFE Assessment section to see the full analysis of package deployment risk categories.

How do I secure wheel once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how wheel behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a wheel version, which can prevent advanced software supply chain attacks. Read how our technology can help prevent future attacks similar to SolarWinds and 3CX.

Did you know...

... that you can use ReversingLabs’ Spectra Assure platform to perform regular risk assessments of packages you develop in-house?

We recommend continuous software safeness monitoring through CI/CD integrations and pre-release/deployment checks. In addition to basic package information found on this page our platform offers rich reports for developers and DevSecOps that help them remediate all reported issues.