{
    "id": "CVE-2007-4559",
    "published": "2007-08-28 01:17:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 22:44:19",
    "cvss_score": "9.8",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.1",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-22",
    "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.27095",
    "epss_percentile": "0.97997",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 0,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-03 18:17:07",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "EPSS 27.1% — above the 10% action threshold."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "python",
            "product": "python"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [],
    "refs_list": [
        "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/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06"
    ]
}