CVE-2025-8194

high

Description

There is a defect in the CPython “tarfile” module affecting the “TarFile” extraction and entry enumeration APIs. The tar implementation would process tar archives with negative offsets without error, resulting in an infinite loop and deadlock during the parsing of maliciously crafted tar archives. This vulnerability can be mitigated by including the following patch after importing the “tarfile” module: https://gist.github.com/sethmlarson/1716ac5b82b73dbcbf23ad2eff8b33e1

References

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ZULLF3IZ726XP5EY7XJ7YIN3K5MDYR2D/

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/137027

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/130577

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fbc2a0ca9ac8aff6887f8ddf79b87b4510277227

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cdae923ffe187d6ef916c0f665a31249619193fe

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c9d9f78feb1467e73fd29356c040bde1c104f29f

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7040aa54f14676938970e10c5f74ea93cd56aa38

https://gist.github.com/sethmlarson/1716ac5b82b73dbcbf23ad2eff8b33e1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-28

Updated: 2025-08-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00057