CVE-2026-11940

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11940
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-11940.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-11940
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-06-23T16:04:17.321Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:04:54.586602323Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
tarfile extraction filter bypass allows escaping the destination directory
Details

tarfile.extractall() with the 'data' or 'tar' filter could be bypassed by a crafted archive where a hardlink references a symlink stored at a deeper name than the hardlink itself.  The extraction fallback validated the symlink at it's archived location but recreated it at the hardlink's shallower path, letting a relative target the filter judged contained escape the destination directory.  This allowed a malicious tar archive to create a symlink pointing outside the destination, enabling out-of-destination file reads or writes. This was an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-4330.

Database specific 
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    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/11xxx/CVE-2026-11940.json",
    "cna_assigner": "PSF",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-22",
        "CWE-59"
    ],
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "3.15.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python/cpython

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python/cpython
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
27dd970bf6b17ebca7c8ed486a40ab043ed7af8f
Fixed
672825e2f36a57e173959b0d9d409d4560dab8df
Fixed
771d12dda5140313db0ac550292987975651bbde
Fixed
79c06bd5c6afa3c440d50faf7ee1b147c8832b4c
Fixed
be13e86f6b9788a6f4d0419dffef72cbae5865c9
Database specific 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.9.8
v0.9.9
v1.*
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.1
v1.1.1
v1.2
v1.2b1
v1.2b2
v1.2b3
v1.2b4
v1.3
v1.3b1
v1.4
v1.4b1
v1.4b2
v1.4b3
v1.5
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.5.2a1
v1.5.2a2
v1.5.2b1
v1.5.2b2
v1.5.2c1
v1.5a1
v1.5a2
v1.5a3
v1.5a4
v1.5b1
v1.5b2
v1.6a1
v1.6a2
v2.*
v2.0
v2.0b1
v2.0b2
v2.0c1
v2.1
v2.1a1
v2.1a2
v2.1b1
v2.1b2
v2.1c1
v2.1c2
v2.2a3
v2.3c1
v2.3c2
v2.4
v2.4a1
v2.4a2
v2.4a3
v2.4b1
v2.4b2
v2.4c1
v3.*
v3.0a1
v3.0a2
v3.0a3
v3.0a4
v3.0a5
v3.0b1
v3.0b2
v3.0b3
v3.0rc1
v3.0rc2
v3.0rc3
v3.1
v3.10.0a1
v3.10.0a7
v3.11.0a3
v3.11.0a4
v3.11.0a5
v3.11.0a6
v3.11.0a7
v3.11.0b1
v3.11.0b2
v3.11.0b3
v3.11.0b4
v3.11.0b5
v3.11.0rc1
v3.11.0rc2
v3.11.1
v3.11.10
v3.11.11
v3.11.12
v3.11.13
v3.11.14
v3.11.15
v3.11.2
v3.11.3
v3.11.4
v3.11.5
v3.11.6
v3.11.7
v3.11.8
v3.11.9
v3.12.0a1
v3.12.0a2
v3.12.0a3
v3.12.0a4
v3.12.0a5
v3.12.0a6
v3.12.0a7
v3.12.0b1
v3.13.0
v3.13.0a1
v3.13.0a2
v3.13.0a3
v3.13.0a4
v3.13.0a5
v3.13.0a6
v3.13.0b1
v3.13.0b2
v3.13.0b3
v3.13.0b4
v3.13.0rc1
v3.13.0rc2
v3.13.0rc3
v3.13.1
v3.13.10
v3.13.11
v3.13.12
v3.13.13
v3.13.14
v3.13.2
v3.13.3
v3.13.4
v3.13.5
v3.13.6
v3.13.7
v3.13.8
v3.14.0
v3.14.0a1
v3.14.0a2
v3.14.0a3
v3.14.0a4
v3.14.0a5
v3.14.0a6
v3.14.0a7
v3.14.0b1
v3.14.0b2
v3.14.0b3
v3.14.0b4
v3.14.0rc1
v3.14.0rc2
v3.14.0rc3
v3.14.1
v3.14.2
v3.14.3
v3.14.4
v3.14.5
v3.14.5rc1
v3.14.6
v3.15.0a1
v3.15.0a2
v3.15.0a3
v3.15.0a4
v3.15.0a5
v3.15.0a6
v3.15.0a7
v3.15.0a8
v3.15.0b1
v3.15.0b2
v3.15.0b3
v3.1a1
v3.1a2
v3.1b1
v3.1rc1
v3.1rc2
v3.2a1
v3.2a2
v3.2a3
v3.2a4
v3.2b1
v3.2b2
v3.2rc1
v3.2rc2
v3.2rc3
v3.3.0a2
v3.3.0a3
v3.3.0a4
v3.3.0b1
v3.3.0b2
v3.3.0rc1
v3.3.0rc2
v3.3.0rc3
v3.4.0a1
v3.4.0a2
v3.4.0a3
v3.4.0a4
v3.4.0b1
v3.4.0b2
v3.4.0b3
v3.5.0a1
v3.5.0a2
v3.5.0a3
v3.5.0a4
v3.5.0b1
v3.6.0a3
v3.6.0b1
v3.7.0a2
v3.9.0a2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-11940.json"