Critical severity · published Aug 28, 2007
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…
9.8
CVSS
27.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)27.1% · higher than 98% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PY
Python · Python
before 3.6.16; 3.7.0 before 3.8.17; 3.9.0 before 3.9.17; 3.10.0 before 3.10.12; 3.11.0 before 3.11.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4559
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4559
Mailing List
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
Exploit
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
Broken Link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
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