CVE-2007-4559
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 27.1% (pctl 98)
Patch early
EPSS 27.1% — above the 10% action threshold.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 27.1% — more likely to be exploited than 98% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-22 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2007-08-28 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| python | python |
References
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
- 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/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
- 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/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/
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