CVE-2007-4559
Published Aug 28, 2007
Last updated 8 months ago
Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-22
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263261 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
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