Vulnerability in Python Software Foundation Cpython

CVE-2026-82049

In CPython 3.13 and earlier, the tarfile module's data and tar extraction filters are vulnerable to crafted archives containing a hard link to a symbolic link. Such archives may cause extraction to modify the permissions or modification time of a file outside the destination directory, or expose the contents of that file within the extracted tree.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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