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AIKIDO-2025-10457

clearml is vulnerable to Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')CVE-2025-8917 Published Jul 11, 2025

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Medium Risk

This Affects:

Pythonclearml
1.8.0 - 2.0.1
Fixed in 2.0.2
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to path traversal when extracting tar archives containing malicious symlinks, as the safe_extract function checks directory traversal for regular files but does not properly validate symbolic links, allowing an attacker to write arbitrary files outside the target directory by including specially crafted symlinks in the archive.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

clearml is vulnerable to Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') in versions 1.8.0 - 2.0.1.

How to fix this

Upgrade the clearml library to the patch version.