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CVE-2026-11940

tarfile extraction filter bypass allows escaping the destination directory PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

tarfile.extractall() with the 'data' or 'tar' filter could be bypassed by a crafted archive where a hardlink references a symlink stored at a deeper name than the hardlink itself.  The extraction fallback validated the symlink at it's archived location but recreated it at the hardlink's shallower path, letting a relative target the filter judged contained escape the destination directory.  This allowed a malicious tar archive to create a symlink pointing outside the destination, enabling out-of-destination file reads or writes. This was an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-4330.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Python Software Foundation / CPythonaffected 0 before 3.10.21; affected 3.11.0 before 3.11.16; affected 3.12.0 before 3.12.14; affected 3.13.0 before 3.13.15; affected 3.14.0 before 3.14.7; affected 3.15.0a1 before 3.15.0b4

CWE

CWE-22, CWE-59

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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