CVE-2026-43637NVD
Vulnerability Summary
Cornac before 2.6.0 contains a path traversal (Tar Slip) vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files outside the intended cache directory by supplying a crafted TAR archive containing ../ sequences, absolute paths, or symlink/hardlink entries to the _extract_archive() function in cornac/utils/download.py. Attackers can trigger this vulnerability through the built-in dataset loaders, which automatically download and extract archives, causing archive.extractall() to write files to arbitrary locations on the filesystem accessible to the running process.
CVSS v4.0 Base Metrics — Score 8.8
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Attack RequirementsNone
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System)None
Integrity (Vulnerable System)High
Availability (Vulnerable System)High
Confidentiality (Subsequent System)None
Integrity (Subsequent System)None
Availability (Subsequent System)None
CVSS v3.1 Base Metrics — Score 9.1
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
Affected & Patched Versions
- cornac < 2.6.0
Not provided by NVD for this CVE.
External References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43637
- https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/709
- https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/commit/8a50be72c11569b6747c6b96d6e31a0a1962f1a8
- https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/releases/tag/v2.6.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cornac-path-traversal-via-extract-archive-in-download-py
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rrh3-cwwj-g5mg