Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2026-02-03 16:04
Modified
2026-02-03 16:04
Summary
Details

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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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "python",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/python"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.6.16"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.7.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.8.17"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.9.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.9.17"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.10.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.10.12"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.11.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.11.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2007-4559"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "BIT-python-2007-4559",
  "modified": "2026-02-03T16:04:06.884Z",
  "published": "2026-02-03T16:04:06.884Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/26623"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4559"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gw9q-c7gh-j9vm"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2"
}


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