CVE-2024-12718 — Path Traversal in Software Foundation Cpython
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 3
Latest updateJun 19
Description
Allows modifying some file metadata (e.g. last modified) with filter="data" or file permissions (chmod) with filter="tar" of files outside the extraction directory.
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…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4