CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-79824

HighCVSS 8.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.48%

40th percentile - higher than 40% of all known CVEs

Summary

A directory traversal vulnerability in HPE NonStop Python 3.x could allow attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames inside a TAR archive. The description does not specify required privileges.

Risk Assessment

An attacker may overwrite arbitrary files on the system, potentially leading to data corruption, configuration modification, or arbitrary code execution.

Recommendation

Apply the fixes provided by HPE for HPE NonStop Python 3.x and avoid extracting untrusted TAR archives without prior path validation.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A directory traversal vulnerability in HPE NonStop Python 3.x could allow  attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS