CVE-2026-35592: pyload-ng: Incomplete Tar Path Traversal Fix in UnTar._safe_extractall via os.path.commonprefix Bypass
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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 GHSA-7g4m-8hx2-4qh3 fix (commit 5f4f0fa) but was never applied to _safe_extractall(), making this an incomplete fix.
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