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CVE-2007-4559

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2007-08-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Python Python

Weakness Type

CWE-22, CWE-22

References