# CVE-2026-87910: tarfile hardlink fallback ignores custom extraction filter rejection via None

- Also known as: BIT-LIBPYTHON-2026-87910, BIT-PYTHON-2026-87910, BIT-PYTHON-MIN-2026-87910, PSF-2026-40
- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- PSF rates this medium
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16, 3.14.9, and 1 more
- Published: 2026-09-11 · Updated: 2026-10-22

## Affected

- Python Software Foundation CPython: fixed in 3.10.22; from 3.11.0, fixed in 3.11.17; from 3.12.0, fixed in 3.12.15; from 3.13.0, fixed in 3.13.16; from 3.14.0, fixed in 3.14.9; from 3.15.0a1, fixed in 3.15.0rc3
- libpython (Bitnami): fixed in 3.10.22; from 3.11.0, fixed in 3.11.17; from 3.12.0, fixed in 3.12.15; from 3.13.0, fixed in 3.13.16; from 3.14.0
- python (Bitnami): fixed in 3.10.22; from 3.11.0, fixed in 3.11.17; from 3.12.0, fixed in 3.12.15; from 3.13.0, fixed in 3.13.16; from 3.14.0
- python-min (Bitnami): fixed in 3.10.22; from 3.11.0, fixed in 3.11.17; from 3.12.0, fixed in 3.12.15; from 3.13.0, fixed in 3.13.16; from 3.14.0

## Description

When tarfile extracts a link on a system that doesn't support links, it falls back to extracting a member from the archive. In this case, the filter function is run twice: once for the extracted member, and once with name set to the location of the link. For one of the calls, the return value was ignored. Instead, the member should be skipped if either call returns None.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Python Software Foundation CPython, libpython, python or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16, 3.14.9) per the references below.
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## References

- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/57TBTLL2W6APMZR3A25B2YV7GL3EPTDJ/
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/157266
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/157265
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d9565e54b1fc6d63c5be9afd58114499128fa57b
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fb2f0bbc3b35264f09cc2cb2934b7987527a6bc2
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9c17bace90f88dfba6d0e2fe23c8e7ae35f83955
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/764fd0af8d9e19d3684a58d2e58bf770f0605036
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2eb0c2f1dc71847731b6ab30aebefd058d482a7f
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c1f106d240c4ffcb3608ed0a20e8aba6c865f6d3
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3105a3498aaf681ce128cf5baf83c2e5574267c5
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a4919937a4e1e69a0d178909c6f20557eca5d1d0

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