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RHSA-2026:54760

RHSA-2026:54760 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.400000095367432 HIGH

A flaw was found in CPython's tarfile module. This vulnerability allows bypassing of extraction filters, enabling symlink traversal outside the intended extraction directory and potential modification of file metadata via malicious tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract() with the filter="data" or filter="tar" parameters. This issue leads to potentially overwriting or modifying system files and metadata.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
7.400000095367432
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Red Hatregistry.redhat.io/discovery/discovery-server-rhel9@sha256:33bb57a2ffa3b7be7bf730f6f1bc23c00bebba085925de708240f50f84614f41_arm64 as a component of Red Hat Discovery 2*
Red Hatregistry.redhat.io/discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9@sha256:39e32df84e26a6d882fd2f18d6a9981e5dd77ddfcd7fc18f1553d0ba726019a3_amd64 as a component of Red Hat Discovery 2*
Red Hatregistry.redhat.io/discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9@sha256:8268709ddc6c9537cb5f0ab978b7afc507fdbf035723327e3f542b10eef2b25c_arm64 as a component of Red Hat Discovery 2*
Red Hatregistry.redhat.io/discovery/discovery-server-rhel9@sha256:43f1ad539e71187687fe816e256d2c016ab1048d9e56004e19e621b3518bde04_amd64 as a component of Red Hat Discovery 2*

Timeline

  • Aug 13, 2026 CVE Published
  • Oct 1, 2026 CVE Updated
  • Oct 1, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Oct 1, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Oct 1, 2026 Security Advisory
  • Oct 1, 2026 Security Advisory
  • Oct 1, 2026 Security Advisory
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