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CVE record · CVE-2025-4517

Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow

CVSS 9.4 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.015 · 74th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.4: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: PSF) at 3 Jun 2025, 12:58 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Python Software Foundation CPython
  • affected before 3.9.23 python
  • affected 3.10.0 to before 3.10.18 python
  • affected 3.11.0 to before 3.11.13 python
  • affected 3.12.0 to before 3.12.11 python
  • affected 3.13.0 to before 3.13.4 python
  • affected 3.14.0a1 to before 3.14.0b3 python
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-4517
CNA
PSF
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Tags
Published
3 Jun 2025
Updated
4 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.4 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L CNA (PSF)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.015, the 74th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 3 Jun 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.