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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-11940

CVE-2026-11940

High
Open
TLP:CLEAR

tarfile extraction filter bypass allows escaping the destination directory

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Description

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.

Details

CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.73%

50.9th percentile

CVSS Vector
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
Confidence
90%
Published
Jun 23, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 11, 2026
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