DEBIAN-CVE-2025-4517
Allows arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data". 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. 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.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:14 | pypy3 | 7.3.20+dfsg, 7.3.19+dfsg-2, 7.3.20+dfsg-1 |
| Debian:13 | pypy3 | 7.3.20+dfsg, 7.3.20+dfsg, 7.3.20+dfsg |
| Debian:12 | pypy3 | *, *, 0 |
| Debian:14 | python3.13 | 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | python3.13 | 0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- CVE‑2025‑4517 Proof‑of‑Concept Script (github-poc-repo)
- CVE-2025-4517 (CVSS 9.4 – Critical) A vulnerability in Python's `tarfile` (github-poc-repo)
- Python tarfile data filter bypass via PATH_MAX overflow in os.path.realpath() - CVE-2025-4517 / CVE-2025-4330 (github-poc-repo)
- CVE-2025-4138 / CVE-2025-4517 — Python tarfile PATH_MAX Symlink Filter Bypass (github-poc-repo)
- A Python script to generate a malicious tar archive that exploits CVE-2025-4138 / CVE-2025-4517. (github-poc-repo)
- PoC and explanation for CVE-2025-4517 used in a CTF I was playing. (github-poc-repo)
- Exploit for CVE-2024-6232 - Python Tarfile Realpath Overflow (github-poc-repo)
- Path traversal vulnerability in Python's tarfile. (github-poc-repo)
- A high-performance Python toolkit to automate the CVE-2025-4517 PATH_MAX bypass exploit. Specifically tuned for the WingData HTB challenge to achieve arbitrary file writes and root persistence (github-poc-repo)
- Privilege Escalation script for CVE-2025-4517 (github-poc-repo)
…and 11 more exploits
Timeline
- Jun 3, 2025 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated