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CVE-2026-29509

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 61/100
Published: 2026-06-26 Modified: 2026-10-25 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: Passive
S: X
AT: None
VC: Low
VI: Low
VA: None

Description

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

References & Advisories (3)

Bug Bounty Relevance

61 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.37%
Raw Score 0.003710
Percentile 31.0%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00371
2026-10-28
0.00371

Intelligence Sources

nvd ref →

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