CVE-2026-115791
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-115791, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-11-10
Last updated on: 2026-11-10
Assigner: Python Software Foundation
Description
Description
When tarfile or zipfile command line interface (CLI) is used to
decompress an archive, a Python script shadowing the stdlib can be
created. Then if an error occurs during decompressing the next file,
the newly created Python script is executed. This is especially true
if the created Python is called traceback.py. The problem is that
Python adds the current directory to sys.path when python -m MODULE is
run, and the archive is also decompressed in the current directory.
The fix removes sys.path[0] in gzip, tarfile and zipfile command line
interface to prevent shadowing standard library modules from extracted
files.
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
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| CWE-UNKNOWN |
