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.
This page covers CVE-2026-11940 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package pypy3. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.
The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-11940 is recorded against 13 packages.
Published on 23 June 2026 and last revised on 27 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
pypy3 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:
Details
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| pypy3 | — | — |
| python2.7 | — | — |
| python3.10 | — | — |
| python3.11 | — | — |
| python3.12 | — | — |
| python3.13 | — | — |
| python3.14 | — | — |
| python3.4 | — | — |
| python3.5 | — | — |
| python3.6 | — | — |
| python3.7 | — | — |
| python3.8 | — | — |
| python3.9 | — | — |
References
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