CVE-2007-4559
Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 27.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 27.1% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- 26623 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3022 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [python-dev] 20070824 tarfile and directory traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [python-dev] 20070825 tarfile and directory traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- GLSA-202309-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-d1f1084584 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-ebb3c95344 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-46374d2703 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-4541 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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