Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction directory
Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract() using the fi…
Severity high: primary CNA CVSS 7.5 v3.1 (worst CNA-provided scenario) Not listed in this KEV snapshot. Forecast present in this snapshot.
Published 2025-06-03T12:59:02.717Z. Updated 2026-07-31T14:03:14.616Z.