Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2007-4559
CVE-2007-4559
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 products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
12- mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.htmlnvdExploitMailing List
- mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.htmlnvdMailing ListVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/26623nvdBroken Link
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022nvdBroken Link
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06nvd
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