CVE ID : CVE-2025-8194
Published : July 28, 2025, 7:15 p.m. | 5 hours, 22 minutes ago
Description : There is a defect in the CPython “tarfile” module affecting the “TarFile” extraction and entry enumeration APIs. The tar implementation would process tar archives with negative offsets without error, resulting in an infinite loop and deadlock during the parsing of maliciously crafted tar archives.
This vulnerability can be mitigated by including the following patch after importing the “tarfile” module:
import tarfile
def _block_patched(self, count):
if count
Severity: 7.5 | HIGH
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