CVE-2007-4559

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Aug 28, 2007
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2007-4559: Critical severity, CVSS 9.8 | Vulnix