CVE-2026-11940

EUVD-2026-38490
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.
Path Traversal
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
PSFCNA
7.8 HIGH
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
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
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
VendorProductVersionSource
pythoncpython
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< 3.15.0
CNA
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Codename
pypy3
bookworm
vulnerable
bullseye
vulnerable
bullseye (security)
vulnerable
forky
vulnerable
sid
vulnerable
trixie
vulnerable
python2.7
bullseye
vulnerable
python3.11
bookworm
vulnerable
bookworm (security)
vulnerable
python3.13
forky
vulnerable
sid
vulnerable
trixie
vulnerable
python3.14
forky
vulnerable
sid
vulnerable
python3.9
bullseye
vulnerable
bullseye (security)
vulnerable