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CVE-2007-4559CRITICALCVSS 9.8

CVE-2007-4559

Published Aug 27, 2007·Updated Jun 16, 2026

NVD 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.

Public Exploits & PoCs4 found

CVSS Vector

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

References

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