Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-923
Advisory Release Date: 2025-03-26 20:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-04-01 11:34 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267. (CVE-2007-4559)
Affected Packages:
python-pip
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update python-pip --releasever 2023.7.20250331 to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
python3-pip-wheel-21.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.11.noarch
python3-pip-21.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.11.noarch
src:
python-pip-21.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.11.src