Misinterpretation of Input Affecting cpython package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CPYTHON-15517598
  • published13 Mar 2026
  • disclosed12 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2026

CVE-2025-13462  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-115  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Misinterpretation of Input in tarfile.py, which may convert AREGTYPE (\x00) blocks to DIRTYPE when processing multi-block input such as GNUTYPE_LONGNAME or GNUTYPE_LONGLINK.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1