CVE-2007-4559
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8EPSS 27.1%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 27.1% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4541)
- Published
- August 28, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4541 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on January 17, 2025.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- python / python
References
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html(Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html(Exploit, Mailing List)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26623(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022(Broken Link)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261(Issue Tracking)
- 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/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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