Security Advisory

CVE-2025-8194

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-07-28 18:42:44
Last updated 2026-07-31 14:01:18
Assigner PSF
CVSS score 7.5
State PUBLISHED

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:  https://gist.github.com/sethmlarson/1716ac5b82b73dbcbf23ad2eff8b33e1