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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.4 Critical

CVE-2025-4517

Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
PSF

Description

Allows arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data". You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract() using the filter= parameter with a value of "data" or "tar". See the tarfile extraction filters documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile-extraction-filter  for more information. Note that for Python 3.14 or later the default value of filter= changed from "no filtering" to `"data", so if you are relying on this new default behavior then your usage is also affected. Note that none of these vulnerabilities significantly affect the installation of source distributions which are tar archives as source distributions already allow arbitrary code execution during the build process. However when evaluating source distributions it's important to avoid installing source distributions with suspicious links.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Python Software Foundation CPython

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 3.9.23affected
  • 3.10.0 to < 3.10.18affected
  • 3.11.0 to < 3.11.13affected
  • 3.12.0 to < 3.12.11affected
  • 3.13.0 to < 3.13.4affected
  • 3.14.0a1 to < 3.14.0b3affected

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