CVE-2026-11940 (GCVE-0-2026-11940)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-23 16:04 – Updated: 2026-07-23 18:47
VLAI
Title
tarfile extraction filter bypass allows escaping the destination directory
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.15.0b4 (python)
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Credits
Haruki Oyama (https://github.com/harukioya) Stan Ulbrych (https://github.com/StanFromIreland) Petr Viktorin (https://github.com/encukou)
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