CVE-2007-4559

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 89.4%
Published: 2/3/2026Modified: 2/3/2026

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.

Affected packages (2)

  • Bitnami/pythonfrom 0, < 3.6.16, >= 3.7.0, < 3.8.17, >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.17, >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.12, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.4
  • Bitnami/python-minfrom 0, < 3.6.16, >= 3.7.0, < 3.8.17, >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.17, >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.12, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.4

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (14)