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CRITICAL 9.8

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.

CVSS v3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS 90.2% percentile 99.6%

Affected tracked apps

Vulnerable CPE configurations

Vendor Product Platform Versions CPE 2.3 URI
python python Windows <3.6.16 cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python Windows ≥3.7.0 <3.8.17 cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python Windows ≥3.9.0 <3.9.17 cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python Windows ≥3.10.0 <3.10.12 cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python Windows ≥3.11.0 <3.11.4 cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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