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.
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-08-28T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:01:09.683Z

Reserved: 2007-08-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-4559

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-08-28T01:17:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:35:53.347

Link: CVE-2007-4559

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-4559 - Bugzilla