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CVE-2007-4559 affecting package python-py 1.11.0-1
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- python-py
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2007-4559
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2007-4559 affecting package python-py 1.11.0-1
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 28 Aug 2007, 01:17 UTC
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.
osv:AZL-109554
python-py
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-109554",
"method": "structured",
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"summary": "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.",
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"modified": "2026-10-27T05:36:16Z",
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