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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 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.

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