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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4559

Original release date:08/28/2007

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.8 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/15/2007): Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263261 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [python-dev] 20070825 tarfile and directory traversal vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [python-dev] 20070824 tarfile and directory traversal vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3022

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3022