d3vn0mi/CVE-2025-4138-POC

PoC

Python PoC for CVE-2025-4138, a path traversal in Python's tarfile module abusing symlink chains to bypass PATH_MAX for arbitrary file write

view exploit source poc_in_githubauthor d3vn0mipublished 2026-02-22catalog poc_in_github

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2025-4138US	—	1.39% (72nd)	Exploit	2025-06-03
Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by t…

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