GHSA-9mc4-rqmq-h467High

tarfile.extractall() with the 'data' or 'tar' filter could be bypassed by a crafted archive...

Published
June 23, 2026
Last Modified
June 23, 2026

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📋 Description

tarfile.extractall() with the 'data' or 'tar' filter could be bypassed by a crafted archive where a hardlink references a symlink stored at a deeper name than the hardlink itself.  The extraction fallback validated the symlink at it's archived location but recreated it at the hardlink's shallower path, letting a relative target the filter judged contained escape the destination directory.  This allowed a malicious tar archive to create a symlink pointing outside the destination, enabling out-of-destination file reads or writes. This was an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-4330.

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