tarfile.data_filter could be bypassed using crafted link entries, including symlinks with empty or directory-like names, to redirect later archive members outside the intended extraction directory. This allowed a malicious tar archive to cause tarfile.extractall() to write files outside the destination directory, subject to the permissions of the extracting process.
{
"severity": "Medium",
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
]
}