VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-4360

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-06-30
Last modified2026-10-25
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Description

In the Tarfile.extract() function, the filter parameter is not passed properly when extracting hardlinks. An affected system that extracts content from untrusted tar files could end up writing files with an unexpected uid/gid despite the user passing filter='data' to the extract() function.

Weakness classification

  • cna@python.org: CWE-281

Primary references