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CVE-2007-4559

Published

15 years ago

Last Modified

12 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: Medium
Base Score: 6.8/10
Exploit Score: 8.6/10
Access Vector: Network
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:a:python_software_foundation:python::::::::	Yes	-	-

References

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022