CVE-2026-11940

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.
CVSS

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Configurations

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History

23 Jun 2026, 18:17

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References
  • () https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/27dd970bf6b17ebca7c8ed486a40ab043ed7af8f -
  • () https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/672825e2f36a57e173959b0d9d409d4560dab8df -
  • () https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/771d12dda5140313db0ac550292987975651bbde -
  • () https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/79c06bd5c6afa3c440d50faf7ee1b147c8832b4c -

23 Jun 2026, 17:16

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Information

Published : 2026-06-23 17:16

Updated : 2026-06-23 19:36


NVD link : CVE-2026-11940

Mitre link : CVE-2026-11940

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-11940


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Products Affected

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CWE
CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CWE-59

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')