CVE-2025-4517
Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow
- Published
- Jun 3, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- PSF
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:LLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 71.4%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Allows arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data". 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 more information. Note that for Python 3.14 or later the default value of filter= changed from "no filtering" to `"data", so if you are relying on this new default behavior then your usage is also affected. Note that none of these vulnerabilities significantly affect the installation of source distributions which are tar archives as source distributions already allow arbitrary code execution during the build process. However when evaluating source distributions it's important to avoid installing source distributions with suspicious links.
Sources
10Python tarfile data filter bypass via PATH_MAX overflow in os.path.realpath() - CVE-2025-4517 / CVE-2025-4330
- CVE-2025-4517-POCExploit
Privilege Escalation script for CVE-2025-4517
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