CVE-2007-4559

Publication date

2007-08-28 00:00:00

Family

mitre

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.