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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 over…

Impact

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

VendorProductAffected versions
PythonPython
before 3.6.16
from 3.7.0 before 3.8.17
from 3.9.0 before 3.9.17
from 3.10.0 before 3.10.12
from 3.11.0 before 3.11.4

Weakness classification

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