Directory Traversal Affecting python package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-PYTHON-10434259
  • published19 Jun 2025
  • disclosed3 Jun 2025

Introduced: 3 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2024-12718  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 python.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python package and not the python package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Allows modifying some file metadata (e.g. last modified) with filter="data" or file permissions (chmod) with filter="tar" of files outside the extraction directory. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1