The vulnerability is in the Python tarfile package, in code that uses un-sanitized tarfile.extract() function or the built-in defaults of tarfile.extractall(). It is a path traversal bug that ...

A bug in the programming language Python has been rediscovered that was made public in 2007 but never fixed. The impact of this bug, which also leads to arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities ...

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In brief: The Python programming language is being impacted ... thus leading to a possible execution of malicious code. Since the initial report posted 15 years ago, the tarfile vulnerability ...