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CVE-2025-4517CRITICALCVSS 9.4

CVE-2025-4517

Published Jun 3, 2025·Updated Jul 31, 2026

NVD Description

Allows arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data". You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract() using the filter= parameter with a value of "data" or "tar". See the tarfile extraction filters documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile-extraction-filter  for more information. Note that for Python 3.14 or later the default value of filter= changed from "no filtering" to `"data", so if you are relying on this new default behavior then your usage is also affected. Note that none of these vulnerabilities significantly affect the installation of source distributions which are tar archives as source distributions already allow arbitrary code execution during the build process. However when evaluating source distributions it's important to avoid installing source distributions with suspicious links.

Public Exploits & PoCs7 found

[POC] CVE-2025-4517 — CVE-2025-4517-PoC

CVE‑2025‑4517 Proof‑of‑Concept Script

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[POC] CVE-2025-4517 — CVE-2025-4517-PoC

PoC and explanation for CVE-2025-4517 used in a CTF I was playing.

[POC] CVE-2025-4517 — PyPath-Escape-CVE-2025-4517-Exploit-Research

A high-performance Python toolkit to automate the CVE-2025-4517 PATH_MAX bypass exploit. Specifically tuned for the WingData HTB challenge to achieve arbitrary file writes and root persistence

[POC] CVE-2025-4517 — CVE-2025-4517-Python-tarfile-filter-data-Bypass-PoC

Path traversal vulnerability in Python's tarfile.

[POC] CVE-2025-4517 — CVE-2025-4517-tarfile-PATH_MAX-bypass

Python tarfile data filter bypass via PATH_MAX overflow in os.path.realpath() - CVE-2025-4517 / CVE-2025-4330

[POC] CVE-2025-4517 — CVE-2025-4517-poc

CVE-2025-4517 (CVSS 9.4 – Critical) A vulnerability in Python's `tarfile`

[POC] CVE-2025-4517 — CVE-2025-4517-POC-HTB-WingData

Privilege Escalation script for Wingdata

CVSS Vector

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

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