Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and ...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 1, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 17, 2025
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Aug 28, 2007
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 1, 2022
Last updated
Jan 17, 2025
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.
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