Security Advisory

CVE-2019-20907

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-07-13 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 02:53:09
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.