tarfile hardlink fallback ignores custom extraction filter rejection via None
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.7epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 64% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
When tarfile extracts a link on a system that doesn't support links, it falls back to extracting a member from the archive. In this case, the filter function is run twice: once for the extracted member, and once with name set to the location of the link. For one of the calls, the return value was ignored. Instead, the member should be skipped if either call returns None.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Python Software Foundation · CPythonReferences
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d9565e54b1fc6d63c5be9afd58114499128fa57bhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fb2f0bbc3b35264f09cc2cb2934b7987527a6bc2https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/157265https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/157266https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/57TBTLL2W6APMZR3A25B2YV7GL3EPTDJ/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/11/8