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CVE-2007-4559

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score0.0430%
EPSS Percentile31.83th
PublishedAug 28, 2007
Last ModifiedApr 23, 2026

Vulnerability 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.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

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Python

Python

< 3.6.16
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Python

Python

>= 3.7.0 and < 3.8.17
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Python

Python

>= 3.9.0 and < 3.9.17
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Python

Python

>= 3.10.0 and < 3.10.12
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Python

Python

>= 3.11.0 and < 3.11.4

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