CVE-2007-4559

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

28/08/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

6.80

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::		3.6.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.7.0 (including)	3.8.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.9.0 (including)	3.9.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.10.0 (including)	3.10.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.11.0 (including)	3.11.4 (excluding)

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CVE-2007-4559

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools