PSF-2007-2

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    PSF-2007-2

    Published: 28 Aug 2007Last Modified: 3 Feb 2026

    Summary: Directory path traversal in extract() and extractall() tarfile functions via '..' (dot dot) sequences

    Details: 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.

    References: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html, https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/102950, https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/102953

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -79e63e528795c700a8bd198c15f3322ee25ea786

    Affected versions

    2.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
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    High