PyPi: Python

CVE-2019-20907

Safety vulnerability ID: 45650

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The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Jul 13, 2020 Updated at Dec 10, 2024

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Advisory

In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.

Affected package

python

Latest version: 0.9.8

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

HIGH 7.5

CVSS v3 Details

HIGH 7.5

Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C): NONE
Integrity Impact (I): NONE
Availability Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 5.0

Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (Au): NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C): NONE
Integrity Impact (I): NONE
Availability Impact (A): PARTIAL