Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:43894Directory Traversal
7.1 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.8%
Python is vulnerable to directory traversal attack. The vulnerability is due to the extract and extractall functions in the tarfile module which allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a dot dot(…) sequence. The vulnerability results in an arbitrary file overwrite.
References
mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
secunia.com/advisories/26623
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
github.com/python/cpython/commit/af530469954e8ad49f1e071ef31c844b9bfda414
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/
peps.python.org/pep-0706/
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
Related
7.1 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.8%