CVE-2007-4559 (GCVE-0-2007-4559)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-08-28 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-17 14:48
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2007-08-24 00:00
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