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Directory Traversal Affecting platform-python-devel package, versions <0:3.6.8-47.el8_6.4

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    9.34% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-PLATFORMPYTHONDEVEL-6204586
  • published 26 Jan 2024
  • disclosed 24 Aug 2007
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Introduced: 24 Aug 2007

CVE-2007-4559 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-22 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 platform-python-devel to version 0:3.6.8-47.el8_6.4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:0430.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python-devel package and not the platform-python-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

5.5 medium
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SUSE

5.4 medium