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...

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-2025-4517-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...

CVE-2007-4559-lab

CVE-2007-4559 — TarSlip: The 15-Year Directory Traversal Educational use only. This lab intentionally exploits file system vulnerabilities inside isolated Docker containers. Do not run on any system with sensitive data or in production environments. A self-contained Docker lab that demonstrates...

CVE-2025-4138_tarfile_filter_bypass

CVE-2025-4138 — Python tarfile filter="data" Bypass Arbitrary file write outside the extraction directory via PATHMAX symlink chain. Affected Versions Python 3.12.0 – 3.12.10 Python 3.13.0 – 3.13.3 Fixed in 3.12.11 / 3.13.4 Credit: Reporter: Caleb Brown Google How It Works Python's tarfile data...

CVE-2025-4517-tarfile-PATH_MAX-bypass

CVE-2025-4517 / CVE-2025-4330 — Python tarfile Data Filter Bypass via PATHMAX Overflow Author: 0xDTC CVEs: CVE-2025-4517 / CVE-2025-4330 Advisory: GHSA-6r6c-684h-9j7p CPython Fix: PR 135037 Overview Python's tarfile.extractallfilter="data" is supposed to safely extract tar archives by preventing...

CVE-2025-4138-4517-POC

CVE-2025-4138 / CVE-2025-4517 Python tarfile Filter Bypass via PATHMAX Symlink Escape Arbitrary file write throughfilter="data" / filter="tar" extraction Table of Contents Overview Vulnerability Details How It Works Affected Versio...

CVE-2025-4517-POC

CVE-2025-4517 Exploit NOTES This exploit and description are written by AI. If you find a mistake or issue, please let me know! This exploit was tested and confirmed working. Thank you! Overview This exploit leverages CVE-2025-4517 , a critical vulnerability in Python's tarfile module that allows...

CVE-2025-4517-PoC

CVE-2025-4517-PoC CVE-2025-4517 is a vulnerability in Python’s tarfile module that allows arbitrary file writes outside the extraction directory when extracting untrusted tar archives. The issue occurs when using TarFile.extract or TarFile.extractall with filter="data" or filter="tar", which does...

CVE-2025-4138

CVE-2025-4138 Python Tarfile module Directory Traversal Vulnerability With overflow crossed Directory Impact : Privilege escalation Working : Python's TarFile.extractall and TarFile.extract methods support a feature that allows a filter to be set to improve the safety of using these methods...

python: Python tarfile module: Security filter bypass allows arbitrary file write

A flaw was found in the Python tarfile module. When extracting an archive containing a link on systems that do not support links, the module falls back to extracting the linked member. During this fallback, a security filter designed to prevent the extraction of certain files is not properly...

python: Python tarfile module: Security filter bypass allows arbitrary file write

A flaw was found in the Python tarfile module. When extracting an archive containing a link on systems that do not support links, the module falls back to extracting the linked member. During this fallback, a security filter designed to prevent the extraction of certain files is not properly...

python: Python tarfile module: Security filter bypass allows arbitrary file write

A flaw was found in the Python tarfile module. When extracting an archive containing a link on systems that do not support links, the module falls back to extracting the linked member. During this fallback, a security filter designed to prevent the extraction of certain files is not properly...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Python 2.7, Pypy

In Lib/tarfile.py in Python 3.8.3, an attacker can create a TAR archive that causes an infinite loop when opened using tarfile.open, due to the lack of header validation in procpax...

CVE-2026-87910

A flaw was found in the Python tarfile module. When extracting an archive containing a link on systems that do not support links, the module falls back to extracting the linked member. During this fallback, a security filter designed to prevent the extraction of certain files is not properly...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-87910

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - When tarfile extracts a link on a system that doesn't support links, it falls back to extracting a member from the archive. In this case, the filter function is...

CVE-2026-87910 tarfile hardlink fallback ignores custom extraction filter rejection via None

When tarfile extracts a link on a system that doesn't support links, it falls back to extracting a member from the archive. In this case, the filter function is run twice: once for the extracted member, and once with name set to the location of the link. For one of the calls, the return value was...

python: Python tarfile module: Directory traversal allows creation of empty directories outside extraction destination

A flaw was found in the Python tarfile module. This vulnerability allows an attacker to create empty directories outside of the intended extraction destination on POSIX Portable Operating System Interface platforms. This occurs when processing a specially crafted archive containing member names...