# CVE-2026-35592: pyLoad has an Incomplete Tar Path Traversal Fix in UnTar.\_safe\_extractall via os.path.commonprefix Bypass

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-124, GHSA-MVWX-582F-56R7
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.5.0b3.dev97
- Published: 2026-04-07 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- pyload: fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev97
- pyload-ng (PyPI): fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev97

## Description

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to 0.5.0b3.dev97, the _safe_extractall() function in src/pyload/plugins/extractors/UnTar.py uses os.path.commonprefix() for its path traversal check, which performs character-level string comparison rather than path-level comparison. This allows a specially crafted tar archive to write files outside the intended extraction directory. The correct function os.path.commonpath() was added to the codebase in the CVE-2026-32808 fix (commit 5f4f0fa) but was never applied to _safe_extractall(), making this an incomplete fix. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev97.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-mvwx-582f-56r7

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