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CVE-2007-4559

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published8/28/2007

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

python:python

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22CWE-22

References

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/26623(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06(cve@mitre.org)

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/26623(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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