CVE-2007-4559

9.8 criticalEPSS 27%

Critical (9.8) in python python. EPSS 27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2007-08-28
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

python:python

References

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261

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