{"id":"AZL-6822","summary":"CVE-2007-4559 affecting package python2 for versions less than 2.7.18-8","details":"Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.","modified":"2026-04-21T04:38:22.000516Z","published":"2007-08-28T01:17:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2007-4559"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4559"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"python2","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/python2"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.7.18-8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-6822.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}