GHSA-9g7v-8wxv-mwxp

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https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9g7v-8wxv-mwxp
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/11/GHSA-9g7v-8wxv-mwxp/GHSA-9g7v-8wxv-mwxp.json
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Aliases
  • CVE-2025-12638
Withdrawn
2025-12-02T00:09:26Z
Published
2025-11-28T15:30:30Z
Modified
2026-09-10T03:50:30Z
Severity
  • 8.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Duplicate Advisory: Keras keras.utils.get_file API is vulnerable to a path traversal attack
Details

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-hjqc-jx6g-rwp9. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

Keras version 3.11.3 is affected by a path traversal vulnerability in the keras.utils.get_file() function when extracting tar archives. The vulnerability arises because the function uses Python's tarfile.extractall() method without the security-critical filter='data' parameter. Although Keras attempts to filter unsafe paths using filter_safe_paths(), this filtering occurs before extraction, and a PATH_MAX symlink resolution bug triggers during extraction. This bug causes symlink resolution to fail due to path length limits, resulting in a security bypass that allows files to be written outside the intended extraction directory. This can lead to arbitrary file writes outside the cache directory, enabling potential system compromise or malicious code execution. The vulnerability affects Keras installations that process tar archives with get_file() and does not affect versions where this extraction method is secured with the appropriate filter parameter.

Database specific 
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    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-22"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2025-12-02T00:09:26Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2025-11-28T15:16:00Z",
    "severity":  "HIGH"
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References

Affected packages

PyPI / keras

Package

Name
keras
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Purl
pkg:pypi/keras

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.12.0

Affected versions

0.*
0.2.0
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
1.*
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.0.3
1.0.4
1.0.5
1.0.6
1.0.7
1.0.8
1.1.0
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.2.2
2.*
2.0.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.0.4
2.0.5
2.0.6
2.0.7
2.0.8
2.0.9
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.1.5
2.1.6
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.5
2.3.0
2.3.1
2.4.0
2.4.1
2.4.2
2.4.3
2.5.0rc0
2.6.0rc0
2.6.0rc1
2.6.0rc2
2.6.0rc3
2.6.0
2.7.0rc0
2.7.0rc2
2.7.0
2.8.0rc0
2.8.0rc1
2.8.0
2.9.0rc0
2.9.0rc1
2.9.0rc2
2.9.0
2.10.0rc0
2.10.0rc1
2.10.0
2.11.0rc0
2.11.0rc1
2.11.0rc2
2.11.0rc3
2.11.0
2.12.0rc0
2.12.0rc1
2.12.0
2.13.1rc0
2.13.1rc1
2.13.1
2.14.0rc0
2.14.0
2.15.0rc0
2.15.0rc1
2.15.0
3.*
3.0.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.0.3
3.0.4
3.0.5
3.1.0
3.1.1
3.2.0
3.2.1
3.3.0
3.3.1
3.3.2
3.3.3
3.4.0
3.4.1
3.5.0
3.6.0
3.7.0
3.8.0
3.9.0
3.9.1
3.9.2
3.10.0
3.11.0
3.11.1
3.11.2
3.11.3

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/11/GHSA-9g7v-8wxv-mwxp/GHSA-9g7v-8wxv-mwxp.json"