CVE-2007-4559

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2