CVE-2007-4559

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Path traversal

9.8CVSS CRITICAL

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactHigh

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)89%

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

Affected products we track (1)

Python

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

NVD record
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.htmlAdvisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.htmlExploit