CVE-2007-4559

Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.

Affected products

Alt Linux, Almalinux, Centos, Python Tarfile Module, Red Hat, Rocky Linux, Suse

Python

< 3.6.16, 3.8.17, 3.9.17, 3.10.12, 3.11.4

CVSS 3.1

9.8 CRITICAL

EPSS

27.1% (98th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-22

NVD status

Modified

Published

2007-08-28