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CVE-2007-4559

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8
CVSS
27.1%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2007-08-28
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
pythonpython< 3.6.16
pythonpython>= 3.7.0, < 3.8.17
pythonpython>= 3.9.0, < 3.9.17
pythonpython>= 3.10.0, < 3.10.12
pythonpython>= 3.11.0, < 3.11.4

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