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CVE-2026-11940

tarfile extraction filter bypass allows escaping the destination directory

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 0.6%CWE-22CWE-59
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.6%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
23 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N

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