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Google: dev-lang/python: security update to 17800.309.59

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 454408

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2007-4559)

Solution

Update the dev-lang/python library and its related packages to version 17800.309.59 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-109.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 454408

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4559