diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 2588298f006..dff3d459c4c 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.4.0 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "attrs"
@@ -731,14 +731,14 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "installer"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 description = "A library for installing Python wheels."
 category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
-    {file = "installer-0.6.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:ae7c62d1d6158b5c096419102ad0d01fdccebf857e784cee57f94165635fe038"},
-    {file = "installer-0.6.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:f3bd36cd261b440a88a1190b1becca0578fee90b4b62decc796932fdd5ae8839"},
+    {file = "installer-0.7.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:05d1933f0a5ba7d8d6296bb6d5018e7c94fa473ceb10cf198a92ccea19c27b53"},
+    {file = "installer-0.7.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:a26d3e3116289bb08216e0d0f7d925fcef0b0194eedfa0c944bcaaa106c4b631"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1983,4 +1983,4 @@ testing = ["flake8 (<5)", "func-timeout", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "d00f73e992cf3ea9c61769fe7841ce475d119422476025bab8415cd4f278ad26"
+content-hash = "1b804b8be7ae9a7e94c4959d138908d8647410750fc9de0a5b524870a4238bdd"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3e3fdb7c3e4..27a02f2a2a4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ dulwich = "^0.21.2"
 filelock = "^3.8.0"
 html5lib = "^1.0"
 importlib-metadata = { version = ">=4.4", python = "<3.10" }
-installer = "^0.6.0"
+installer = "^0.7.0"
 jsonschema = "^4.10.0"
 keyring = "^23.9.0"
 lockfile = "^0.12.2"
diff --git a/src/poetry/installation/wheel_installer.py b/src/poetry/installation/wheel_installer.py
index c8df26960f8..16de86e3022 100644
--- a/src/poetry/installation/wheel_installer.py
+++ b/src/poetry/installation/wheel_installer.py
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ def enable_bytecode_compilation(self, enable: bool = True) -> None:
         self._destination.bytecode_optimization_levels = (1,) if enable else ()
 
     def install(self, wheel: Path) -> None:
-        with WheelFile.open(Path(wheel.as_posix())) as source:
+        with WheelFile.open(wheel) as source:
+            source.validate_record()
             install(
                 source=source,
                 destination=self._destination.for_source(source),
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/distributions/demo-0.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl b/tests/fixtures/distributions/demo-0.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
index a01175c144e..9f1ce9264e8 100644
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