CVE-2024-12718

Public on 2025-06-03
Modified on 2025-06-10
Description
Allows modifying some file metadata (e.g. last modified) with filter="data" or file permissions (chmod) with filter="tar" of files outside the extraction directory.
You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract() using the filter= parameter with a value of "data" or "tar". See the tarfile extraction filters documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile-extraction-filter  for more information. Only Python versions 3.12 or later are affected by these vulnerabilities, earlier versions don't include the extraction filter feature.

Note that for Python 3.14 or later the default value of filter= changed from "no filtering" to `"data", so if you are relying on this new default behavior then your usage is also affected.

Note that none of these vulnerabilities significantly affect the installation of source distributions which are tar archives as source distributions already allow arbitrary code execution during the build process. However when evaluating source distributions it's important to avoid installing source distributions with suspicious links.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 jython Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python Not Affected
Amazon Linux 1 python26 No Fix Planned
Amazon Linux 1 python27 Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python3 Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.11 2025-06-23 ALAS2023-2025-1045 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.12 2025-06-23 ALAS2023-2025-1044 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.9 2025-06-23 ALAS2023-2025-1046 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 python34 No Fix Planned
Amazon Linux 1 python35 No Fix Planned
Amazon Linux 1 python36 No Fix Planned
Amazon Linux 1 python38 No Fix Planned

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N