7.8 HighCWE-22
CVE-2026-11940
tarfile extraction filter bypass allows escaping the destination directory
Python Software FoundationCPython
Status
- Not in CISA KEV
- Vendor fix available
Exploit probabilityEPSSchecked 25 Oct
0.8%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Higher than 55% of scored CVEs
SeverityCVSS
7.8High
Description NVD
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.
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