CVE-2026-29509
Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safe_extract() function in patoolib/programs/py_tarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the is_within_directory() helper uses os.path.commonprefix() for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowing a crafted archive member path to bypass the containment check. Attackers can supply a malicious archive with specially crafted member paths to write arbitrary files.
- CVSS 4.0
- 5.3
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS 3.1
- 5.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 30% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced