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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-8194 (HIGH 7.5) — 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 cra

[NVD] CVE-2025-8194 (HIGH 7.5) — 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 cra

lownvdPublished 2025-07-28

CVE-2025-8194 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2025-07-28T19:15:43.793

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.

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8194