GHSA-9mc4-rqmq-h467High
tarfile.extractall() with the 'data' or 'tar' filter could be bypassed by a crafted archive...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🔗 References (9)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11940
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/151558
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/151559
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/27dd970bf6b17ebca7c8ed486a40ab043ed7af8f
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/672825e2f36a57e173959b0d9d409d4560dab8df
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/771d12dda5140313db0ac550292987975651bbde
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/79c06bd5c6afa3c440d50faf7ee1b147c8832b4c
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/LD6QIISNQFQYOIEPJNEUIPV7S3V76FZH
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9mc4-rqmq-h467