CVE-2007-4559

PoC or Exploit for CVE-2007-4559 A malicious TAR archive can include file paths like ../../../../etc/passwd, which try to "climb up" out of the intended extraction folder. If a Python script uses tarfile.extract or extractall without checking the file paths, it will unpack files to those location...

Creosote

Creosote Creosote is our solution to searching for the tarfile vulnerability described by CVE-2007-4559. The tool recursively traverses the given directory searching for python files. When the tool finds python files it scans them for the tarfile module and then parses the code into an AST to loo...

CVE-2025-4517-POC-Sudoers

CVE-2025-4517 - POC adding user to sudoers This script is a weaponized version of the research published in the Google Security Research Advisory: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-hgqp-3mmf-7h8f While the original research demonstrates the vulnerability by...

CVE-2025-4138-POC

CVE-2025-4138 - Python tarfile PATHMAX Bypass PoC Author: d3vn0mi / \ \ / / | | / \ | | | | || | / | | \ V /| | | | | | | \ | | || || / \ | | | | | ||/ /| || / / || | , | | || || ||/|/ |||/ // CVE-2025-4138 :: Python tarfile PATHMAX Bypass Author: d3vn0mi Overview A proof-of-concept exploit...

CVE-2025-4517-Python-tarfile-filter-data-Bypass-PoC

CVE-2025-4517 — Python tarfile filter="data" Bypass PoC Path traversal vulnerability in Python's tarfile module affecting versions 3.8.0 through 3.13.1. The filter="data" sandbox — intended to prevent unsafe extractions — can be bypassed by crafting paths that exceed PATHMAX 4096 bytes, causing...

CVE-2025-4138-poc

CVE-2025-4138 Auto-Sudo Generator A Python script to generate a malicious tar archive that exploits CVE-2025-4138 / CVE-2025-4517 Path Traversal via PATHMAX Truncation. Successfully exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass tarfile extraction filters and write arbitrary files to...

CVE-2025-4517-poc

CVE-2025-4517 PoC – Python tarfile Arbitrary File Write via Path Traversal CVE-2025-4517 CVSS 9.4 – Critical A vulnerability in Python's tarfile module that allows arbitrary file writes outside the extraction directory when using TarFile.extractall or TarFile.extract with filter="data" or...

CentOS Linux 8.5 [TuxCare] Security Update: platform-python / platform-python-debug / platform-python-devel / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (CENTOS8.5:CLSA-2026:1790007232)

The CentOS Linux 8.5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS8.5:CLSA-2026:1790007232 advisory. - When decompressing crafted zip files using the bzip/LZMA/Zstandard compressions, Python could use an attacker-controlled size to...

CentOS Linux 7 [TuxCare] Security Update: python3 / python3-debug / python3-devel / python3-idle / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (CENTOS7:CLSA-2026:1781528783)

The CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS7:CLSA-2026:1781528783 advisory. - The tarfile module would still apply normalization of AREGTYPE \x00 blocks to DIRTYPE, even while processing a multi-block member such...

CentOS Linux 7 [TuxCare] Security Update: python / python-debug / python-devel / python-libs / python-test / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (CENTOS7:CLSA-2026:1783705997)

The CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS7:CLSA-2026:1783705997 advisory. - The tarfile module would still apply normalization of AREGTYPE \x00 blocks to DIRTYPE, even while processing a multi-block member such...

CentOS Linux 6 [TuxCare] Security Update: python / python-devel / python-libs / python-test / python-tools / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (CENTOS6:CLSA-2026:1784072295)

The CentOS Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS6:CLSA-2026:1784072295 advisory. - The tarfile module would still apply normalization of AREGTYPE \x00 blocks to DIRTYPE, even while processing a multi-block member such...

CentOS Linux 8 [TuxCare] Security Update: python2 / python2-debug / python2-devel / python2-libs / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (CENTOS-STREAM8:CLSA-2026:1781179629)

The CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS-STREAM8:CLSA-2026:1781179629 advisory. - The tarfile module would still apply normalization of AREGTYPE \x00 blocks to DIRTYPE, even while processing a multi-block memb...

Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: platform-python / platform-python-debug / platform-python-devel / etc (crlsa-2025_14560)

The Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-202514560 advisory. cpython: Cpython infinite loop when parsing a tarfile CVE-2025-8194 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory...

Rocky Linux 10.0 [CIQ] Security Update: python-unversioned-command / python3 / python3-debug / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2025_10140)

The Rocky Linux 10.0 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-202510140 advisory. cpython: Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 CVE-2025-4435 cpython: Bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction...

CentOS Linux 7 [TuxCare] Security Update: python3 / python3-debug / python3-devel / python3-idle / etc (CENTOS7:CLSA-2025:1759857092)

The CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS7:CLSA-2025:1759857092 advisory. - Directory traversal vulnerability in the 1 extract and 2 extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote...

Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: Cython-debugsource / PyYAML-debugsource / numpy-debugsource / etc (crlsa-2024_8359)

The Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-20248359 advisory. python: cpython: tarfile: ReDos via excessive backtracking while parsing header values CVE-2024-6232 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Rocky Linux 9 [CIQ] Security Update: python-unversioned-command / python3 / python3-debug / etc (crlsa-2025_15019)

The Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-202515019 advisory. cpython: Cpython infinite loop when parsing a tarfile CVE-2025-8194 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory...

AlmaLinux 9.6 [TuxCare] Security Update: python-unversioned-command / python3 / python3-debug / etc (ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1785457027)

The AlmaLinux 9.6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1785457027 advisory. - When using the tarfile module with a file opened in streaming mode mode=r| the tarfile module did not properly handle EOF, making archive...

Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: platform-python / platform-python-debug / platform-python-devel / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2025_10128)

The Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-202510128 advisory. cpython: Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 CVE-2025-4435 cpython: Bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction...

Rocky Linux 9 [CIQ] Security Update: python3.12 / python3.12-debug / python3.12-debuginfo / etc (crlsa-2025_15007)

The Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-202515007 advisory. cpython: Cpython infinite loop when parsing a tarfile CVE-2025-8194 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory...