CVE-2026-4360 PUBLISHED

In the Tarfile.extract() function, the filter parameter is not passed properly when extracting hardlinks. An affected system that extracts content from untrusted tar files could end up writing files with an unexpected uid/gid despite the user passing filter='data' to the extract() function.

• Michael Scovetta (https://github.com/scovetta) reporter
• Seth Larson (https://github.com/sethmlarson) coordinator
• Petr Viktorin (https://github.com/encukou) remediation developer

• https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/TWZW2PC2AZOV6FENIHFSRC63OM7MBGSB/
• https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/151988
• https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/151987
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5e0ef3f1afe892e4f64eb83368db57ac4c40cba0
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7b57e8d51446297b8c7c482d224bc5f1938e4301
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7ccdbaba2c54250a70d7f25632152df7655a5e0a
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/eee3ddf0ca10283cc7fea724aae9cd8665f8d15e

• CWE-281 CWE