CVE-2007-4559
high-risk
Published 2007-08-28
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.
Do I need to act?
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90.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 9% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10
Critical
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Affected Vendors
References (21)
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
and 1 more references
57
/ 100
high-risk
Severity
32/34 · Critical
Exploitability
20/34 · Moderate
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal