Connect your agent
AdvisoriesCriticalCheck your lockfilePluginHow it worksPricing Connect your agent

Advisory record · GHSA-fr26-jjhm-638c

pyLoad: Tar extraction creates device nodes and FIFOs (member types not filtered; tarfile extractall without filter=)

CVSS 4.0, no score published

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 9 Oct 2026, 17:08 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
pyload-ngPyPI<=0.5.0b3.dev101No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-fr26-jjhm-638c
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Tags
Published
9 Oct 2026
Updated
9 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Affected: pyload-ng versions up to and including 0.5.0b3.dev101; no fixed version is listed. The tar extraction code does not check member types and does not pass a safe extraction filter, so a crafted tar archive can make pyLoad create device nodes and FIFOs on disk. An attacker who can submit or trigger extraction of an archive could, when pyLoad runs as root, gain raw disk access and compromise the host. No fix is listed, so the source gives no upgrade path.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
Not published None 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS No score.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:08 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:08 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.