CVE-2026-4360
In the Tarfile.extract() function, the filter parameter is not passed properly when extracting hardlinks. An affected system that extracts content from untrusted tar files could end up writing files with an unexpected uid/gid despite the user passing filter='data' to the extract() function.
- CVSS 4.0
- 2.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS 3.1
- 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-281
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- python:python
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0367912be336348b30572f8029cec4a282782d92
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5e0ef3f1afe892e4f64eb83368db57ac4c40cba0
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7b57e8d51446297b8c7c482d224bc5f1938e4301
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7ccdbaba2c54250a70d7f25632152df7655a5e0a
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cf23b9153181062150d061468b6d24af33fe214f