CVE-2007-4559

critical

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/

https://github.com/palakgrg09/RuntimeShield-Supply-Chain-Vulnerability-Reachability-Analyzer

https://github.com/Vaidehit06/wazuh-siem-lab

https://github.com/jithinodattu/CVE-2007-4559-lab

https://github.com/DesertDemons/CVE-2025-4138-4517-POC

https://github.com/advanced-threat-research/Creosote

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022

http://secunia.com/advisories/26623

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-08-28

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.27095