CVE-2019-20907

Published July 13th, 2020

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CVSS v3

7.5

HIGH

CVSS v2

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

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.

python/cpython

The Python programming language

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