CVE-2026-4360 (GCVE-0-2026-4360)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-30 14:45 – Updated: 2026-06-30 15:28
VLAI?
Title
Tarfile.extract() doesn't fully respect filter parameter
Summary
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.
Severity ?
2 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.15.0 (python)
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Credits
Michael Scovetta (https://github.com/scovetta) Seth Larson (https://github.com/sethmlarson) Petr Viktorin (https://github.com/encukou)
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