CVE-2007-4559

Updated: 2025-08-20 01:37:37.384801

Description:

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.


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Severity

Severity Score
CVSS Version 2.x MEDIUM 6.8
CVSS Version 3.x 0.0

Status

OS name Project name Version Score Severity Status Errata Last updated

Statement

EL 9 python 3.6 0.0 Released CLSA-2025:1749037854 2025-06-05 02:31:14
EL 9 python 2.7 0.0 Ignored 2025-07-29 01:45:39
Ubuntu 16.04 python 2.7 0.0 Ignored 2025-10-14 06:44:43 We have reasoned not to port this fix since it was never backported to 2.x by upstream
Ubuntu 16.04 python 3.6 0.0 Released CLSA-2025:1760366920 2025-10-13 17:13:02 We have reasoned not to port this fix since it was never backported to 2.x by upstream
Ubuntu 18.04 python 2.7 0.0 Ignored 2025-10-14 06:44:42 We have reasoned not to port this fix since it was never backported to 2.x by upstream
Ubuntu 18.04 python 3.6 0.0 Released CLSA-2025:1760366999 2025-10-13 17:13:01 We have reasoned not to port this fix since it was never backported to 2.x by upstream
Ubuntu 20.04 python 2.7 0.0 Ignored 2025-10-14 06:44:41 We have reasoned not to port this fix since it was never backported to 2.x by upstream
Ubuntu 20.04 python 3.6 0.0 Released CLSA-2025:1760367079 2025-10-13 17:13:00 We have reasoned not to port this fix since it was never backported to 2.x by upstream
Ubuntu 22.04 python 2.7 0.0 Ignored 2025-10-14 06:44:41 We have reasoned not to port this fix since it was never backported to 2.x by upstream
Ubuntu 22.04 python 3.6 0.0 Released CLSA-2025:1760367154 2025-10-13 17:12:58 We have reasoned not to port this fix since it was never backported to 2.x by upstream
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