Security Advisory

CVE-2007-4559

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-08-28 00:00:00

Last updated 2025-01-17 14:48:23

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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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