AZL-6822

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Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-6822.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-6822
Upstream
  • CVE-2007-4559
Published
2007-08-28T01:17:00Z
Modified
2026-04-21T04:38:22.000516Z
Summary
CVE-2007-4559 affecting package python2 for versions less than 2.7.18-8
Details

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

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / python2

Package

Name
python2
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/python2

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.7.18-8

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-6822.json"