CVE-2026-7774
tarfile.data_filter could be bypassed using crafted link entries, including symlinks with empty or directory-like names, to redirect later archive members outside the intended extraction directory. This allowed a malicious tar archive to cause tarfile.extractall() to write files outside the destination directory, subject to the permissions of the extracting process.
Weakness
tarfile.data_filter could be bypassed using crafted link entries, including symlinks with empty or directory-like names, to redirect later archive members outside the intended extraction directory. This allowed a malicious tar archive to cause tarfile.extractall() to write files outside the destination directory, subject to the permissions of the extracting process.
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0478bd83d82b255e0f29f613367a59d261e7eaa2
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0d28f5e46e151718972dfabd91205444d0037b6d
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/10a13bee3c24f9c62b602e696334ff2272a40efc
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/578411982c16f753f4893532510099ef665117da
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5cf47a248c35c375d610b87b2f72fd1ed454b558
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/74cca9a92fb7d653e404843a56b8bdc7b0afdbbf
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