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🛡️ CVE-2026-4360 — libpython

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Tarfile.extract() doesn't fully respect filter parameter

In the Tarfile.extract() function, the filter parameter is not passed properly when extracting hardlinks. An affected system that extracts content from untrusted tar files could end up writing files with an unexpected uid/gid despite the user passing filter='data' to the extract() function.

Affected software

CVE-2026-4360 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • libpython
  • python
  • python-min

Timeline and source

Published on 8 July 2026 and last revised on 17 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-08
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libpython
python
python-min

References

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