Bug 2370016 (CVE-2025-4517) - CVE-2025-4517 python: cpython: Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow
Summary: CVE-2025-4517 python: cpython: Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-4517
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2370025
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Reported: 2025-06-03 14:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-18 23:48 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-03 14:01:35 UTC
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. Only Python versions 3.12 or later are affected by these vulnerabilities, earlier versions don't include the extraction filter feature.

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.


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