CVE-2026-11940
tarfile extraction filter bypass allows escaping the destination directory
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.6%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
23 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
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
Affected products
Python Software Foundation · CPythonWant to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/27dd970bf6b17ebca7c8ed486a40ab043ed7af8fhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/672825e2f36a57e173959b0d9d409d4560dab8dfhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/771d12dda5140313db0ac550292987975651bbdehttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/79c06bd5c6afa3c440d50faf7ee1b147c8832b4chttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/151558https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/151559https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/LD6QIISNQFQYOIEPJNEUIPV7S3V76FZH/