ID:12540 - Exploit for Path traversal in Python - CVE-2025-4517

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error in the tarfile module when extracting files from an archive with filter="data". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted archive to the application and write files to arbitrary locations on the system outside the extraction directory.

Remediation