PoC Index

CVE-2007-4559

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 27.1%

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.

CVSS v3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
27.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile
Published
2007-08-28
Updated
2025-01-17

Proof-of-concept exploits (3)

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