6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-4559

Published: 28/08/2007 Updated: 23/03/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 607
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #591995 babiloo: insecure downloading and unpacking of dictionary files Package: babiloo; Maintainer for babiloo is Python Applications Packaging Team <python-apps-team@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for babiloo is src:babiloo (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debianorg> ...
概述 Important: OpenShift Virtualization 4136 security and bug fix update 类型/严重性 Security Advisory: Important 标题 Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 4136 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancementsRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security i ...
Synopsis Moderate: python-pip security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python-pip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as havin ...
概要 Moderate: python39:39 and python39-devel:39 security update タイプ/重大度 Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights パッチ分析 このアドバイザリーの影響を受けるシステムを特定し、修正します。 影響を受けるシステムの表示 トピック An update for the python39:39 and py ...
Synopsis Moderate: python3 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 86 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated ...
概要 Important: Updated IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions 804 SP1 Images タイプ/重大度 Security Advisory: Important トピック An update is now available for IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions including images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 説明 IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions is ...
Synopsis Moderate: python38:38 and python38-devel:38 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for the python38:38 and python38-devel:38 modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise L ...
Synopsis Important: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 300 operator/operand containers Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 300Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a ...
Synopsis Important: OpenShift Virtualization 4141 security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 4141 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancementsRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security imp ...
Synopsis Moderate: Red Hat build of Cryostat 240: new RHEL 8 container images Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic New Red Hat build of Cryostat 240 on RHEL 8 container images are now available Description New Red Hat build of Cryostat 240 on RHEL 8 container images have been released, adding a variety of features and bug f ...
Synopsis Important: ACS 41 enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated images are now available for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 416 The updated images includes security fixesRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact ofImportant A Common Vulnerability Scoring System ( ...
Synopsis Important: RHACS 374 enhancement and security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated images are now available for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 374 The updated images includes bug and security fixesRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulner ...
Synopsis Moderate: python-pip security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python-pip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 86 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has ...
Synopsis Moderate: Migration Toolkit for Runtimes security, bug fix and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 124 releaseRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a de ...
Synopsis Moderate: python39 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python39 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having ...
Synopsis Moderate: python311-pip security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python311-pip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Product Security has rated this update ...
Synopsis Moderate: python311 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python311 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as havin ...
Synopsis Important: OpenShift Virtualization 4129 Images security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 4129 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancementsRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a secur ...
Synopsis Low: Logging Subsystem 581- Red Hat OpenShift security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic An update is now available for RHOL-58-RHEL-9Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, i ...
Synopsis Low: Logging Subsystem 5710 - Red Hat OpenShift security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic Low: Logging Subsystem 5710 - Red Hat OpenShift security updateRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of low A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detaile ...
Synopsis Moderate: Migration Toolkit for Runtimes bug fix, enhancement and security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 123 releaseRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a de ...
Synopsis Important: Red Hat Single Sign-On 766 for OpenShift image enhancement and security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic A new image is available for Red Hat Single Sign-On 766, running on OpenShift Container Platform 310 and 311, and 43Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impa ...
Synopsis Moderate: python3 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a se ...
Synopsis Moderate: python311 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python311 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as havin ...
概要 Important: OpenShift Container Platform 411 low-latency extras update タイプ/重大度 Security Advisory: Important トピック An update for cnf-tests-container, dpdk-base-container and performance-addon-operator-must-gather-rhel8-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 411 Secondary scheduler builds ...
Synopsis Moderate: RHACS 43 enhancement and security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated images are now available for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security The updated image includes bug and security fixesRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Sc ...
Synopsis Important: Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1106 release and security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1106 has been releasedRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a ...
Synopsis Moderate: python-pip security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update for python-pip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as havin ...
Synopsis Moderate: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 41210 Bug Fix Update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated images that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 41210 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 from Red Hat Container Registry Description Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is softw ...

Github Repositories

demonstration of CVE-2007-4559 what is this? This is a demonstration of how python's default handling of tar file extraction prior to python v3114 is vulnerable to a simple symlink attack The instructions below describe how to craft a malicious payload The script untarpy demonstrates how and why the features added in 3114 work - specifically the necessity to invoke

Creosote is our solution to searching for the tarfile vulnerability described by CVE-2007-4559.

Creosote Creosote is our solution to searching for the tarfile vulnerability described by CVE-2007-4559 The tool recursively traverses the given directory searching for python files When the tool finds python files it scans them for the tarfile module and then parses the code into an AST to look for vulnerable code Creosote categorizes all found vulnerabilities under 3 main

the repo to check tarfile vuln

go-creosote A golang version vulnerability scanner for CVE-2007-4559 Reference: wwwtrellixcom/en-us/about/newsroom/stories/research/tarfile-exploiting-the-worldhtml

CVE-2007-4559 - Polemarch exploit

CVE-2007-4559 - Polemarch exploit Full working exploit for Polemarch server wwwpolemarchorg/, using CVE-2007-4559, allowing: Injection of a cryptominer for monero using TOR for better hiding Injection of a rootkit targeting most common sysadmin tools POC Proof of concept using cvemitreorg/cgi-bin/cvenamecgi?name=CVE-2007-4559 and based on the work from

A Domain-Agnostic Benchmark for Self-Supervised Learning

DABS: A Domain Agnostic Benchmark for Self-Supervised Learning This repository contains the code for DABS, a benchmark for domain-agnostic self-supervised learning algorithms The basic components of the benchmark can be found in datasets, encoders, and algorithms Training is implemented with the PyTorch Lightning framework, logging with Weights and Biases, and configuration m

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