diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index b2689d4a90c..e4105d462fd 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -925,13 +925,13 @@ ptyprocess = ">=0.5"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pkginfo"
-version = "1.10.0"
+version = "1.12.0"
 description = "Query metadata from sdists / bdists / installed packages."
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.6"
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "pkginfo-1.10.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:889a6da2ed7ffc58ab5b900d888ddce90bce912f2d2de1dc1c26f4cb9fe65097"},
-    {file = "pkginfo-1.10.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:5df73835398d10db79f8eecd5cd86b1f6d29317589ea70796994d49399af6297"},
+    {file = "pkginfo-1.12.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:dcd589c9be4da8973eceffa247733c144812759aa67eaf4bbf97016a02f39088"},
+    {file = "pkginfo-1.12.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8ad91a0445a036782b9366ef8b8c2c50291f83a553478ba8580c73d3215700cf"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
@@ -1618,4 +1618,4 @@ testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "p
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "e793d16c7f8a014e1fc36d16b280e271032f4b8cd152ede01638e61a7c6026d8"
+content-hash = "b4f0da10f17e674f506b690ee799443cf9115fdf8b6fe96f8742ad19d5f8a503"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f83056f6ee0..59eb9be32bc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ keyring = "^24.0.0"
 # packaging uses calver, so version is unclamped
 packaging = ">=23.1"
 pexpect = "^4.7.0"
-pkginfo = "^1.10"
+pkginfo = "^1.12"
 platformdirs = ">=3.0.0,<5"
 pyproject-hooks = "^1.0.0"
 requests = "^2.26"
diff --git a/src/poetry/inspection/info.py b/src/poetry/inspection/info.py
index 02cf66a2b35..747485e6dab 100644
--- a/src/poetry/inspection/info.py
+++ b/src/poetry/inspection/info.py
@@ -245,9 +245,13 @@ def _from_distribution(
 
         :param dist: The distribution instance to parse information from.
         """
-        if dist.metadata_version not in pkginfo.distribution.HEADER_ATTRS:
-            # This check can be replaced once upstream implements strict parsing
-            # https://bugs.launchpad.net/pkginfo/+bug/2058697
+        # If the METADATA version is greater than the highest supported version,
+        # pkginfo prints a warning and tries to parse the fields from the highest
+        # known version. Assuming that METADATA versions adhere to semver,
+        # this should be safe for minor updates.
+        if not dist.metadata_version or dist.metadata_version.split(".")[0] not in {
+            v.split(".")[0] for v in pkginfo.distribution.HEADER_ATTRS
+        }:
             raise ValueError(f"Unknown metadata version: {dist.metadata_version}")
 
         requirements = None
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/distributions/demo_metadata_version_24-0.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl b/tests/fixtures/distributions/demo_metadata_version_24-0.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
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diff --git a/tests/fixtures/distributions/demo_metadata_version_299-0.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl b/tests/fixtures/distributions/demo_metadata_version_299-0.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
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index 00000000000..8523f2cbe1f
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diff --git a/tests/inspection/test_info.py b/tests/inspection/test_info.py
index 8e1ccf50fe9..c136cb763a1 100644
--- a/tests/inspection/test_info.py
+++ b/tests/inspection/test_info.py
@@ -179,6 +179,20 @@ def test_info_from_wheel(demo_wheel: Path) -> None:
     assert info._source_url == demo_wheel.resolve().as_posix()
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("version", ["24", "299"])
+def test_info_from_wheel_metadata_versions(
+    version: str, fixture_dir: FixtureDirGetter
+) -> None:
+    path = (
+        fixture_dir("distributions")
+        / f"demo_metadata_version_{version}-0.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl"
+    )
+    info = PackageInfo.from_wheel(path)
+    demo_check_info(info)
+    assert info._source_type == "file"
+    assert info._source_url == path.resolve().as_posix()
+
+
 def test_info_from_wheel_metadata_version_unknown(
     fixture_dir: FixtureDirGetter,
 ) -> None: