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5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): Low (L)
Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): Low (L)
Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): Low (L)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): Low (L)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): None (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)

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Patool < 4.0.5 Path Traversal via safe_extract() Function

Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safe_extract() function in patoolib/programs/py_tarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the is_within_directory() helper uses os.path.commonprefix() for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowing a crafted archive member path to bypass the containment check. Attackers can supply a malicious archive with specially crafted member paths to write arbitrary files.