CVE-2025-8869 Fallback tar extraction in pip doesn't check symbolic links point to extraction directory

When extracting a tar archive pip may not check symbolic links point into the extraction directory if the tarfile module doesn't implement PEP 706. Note that upgrading pip to a "fixed" version for this vulnerability doesn't fix all known vulnerabilities that are remediated by using a Python versi...

CVE-2025-8869 Fallback tar extraction in pip doesn't check symbolic links point to extraction directory

When extracting a tar archive pip may not check symbolic links point into the extraction directory if the tarfile module doesn't implement PEP 706. Note that upgrading pip to a "fixed" version for this vulnerability doesn't fix all known vulnerabilities that are remediated by using a Python versi...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-2316

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The utils.html.striptags function in Django 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1, when using certain versions of Python, allows remot...

BIT-LIBPYTHON-2022-45061

An issue was discovered in Python before 3.11.1. An unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA RFC 3490 decoder, such that a crafted, unreasonably long name being presented to the decoder could lead to a CPU denial of service. Hostnames are often...

BIT-LIBPYTHON-2022-0391

A flaw was found in Python, specifically within the urllib.parse module. This module helps break Uniform Resource Locator URL strings into components. The issue involves how the urlparse method does not sanitize input and allows characters like '\r' and '\n' in the URL path. This flaw allows an...

BIT-LIBPYTHON-2021-3177

Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArgrepr in ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to cdouble.fromparam. This occurs because sprintf is...

BIT-LIBPYTHON-2020-8492

Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDoS attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking...

BIT-LIBPYTHON-2020-8315

In Python CPython 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1, an insecure dependency load upon launch on Windows 7 may result in an attacker's copy of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll being loaded and used instead of the system's copy. Windows 8 and later are unaffected...

K000152599: Python tarfile vulnerability CVE-2024-12718

Security Advisory Description Allows modifying some file metadata e.g. last modified with filter="data" or file permissions chmod with filter="tar" of files outside the extraction directory. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using...

OESA-2025-1789 python3 security update

Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems. New built-in modules are easily written in C or C...

BIT-PYTHON-2025-4517 Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow

Allows arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data". You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall or TarFile.extract using the filter= parameter with a value of...

BIT-PYTHON-2025-4138 Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction directory

Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall or...

AZL-62318 CVE-2025-4517 affecting package python3 for versions less than 3.12.9-2

Allows arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data". You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall or TarFile.extract using the filter= parameter with a value of...

PSF-2025-5

Allows modifying some file metadata e.g. last modified with filter="data" or file permissions chmod with filter="tar" of files outside the extraction directory. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall or...

CVE-2024-12718 Bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction directory

Allows modifying some file metadata e.g. last modified with filter="data" or file permissions chmod with filter="tar" of files outside the extraction directory. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall or...

CVE-2025-4138 Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction directory

Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall or...

CVE-2025-4138 Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction directory

Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall or...

Directory Traversal

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via TarFile.extractall and TarFile.extract functions in the tarfile module when using the filter parameter set to data or tar. An attacker can gain unauthorised access to files outside the intended extraction directo...

Directory Traversal

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in the tarfile extraction process when using the filter parameter set to "data" or "tar". An attacker can write files outside the intended extraction directory by convincing a privileged user or process to extract a...

CVE-2025-4517

CVE-2025-4517 concerns the tarfile module: when extracting untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract() with filter set to "data" (or "tar"), it allows arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory. The description and connected advisories confirm this is ...