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CVE-2026-115791

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Nov 10, 2026Sources checked Nov 11, 2026
5.3MEDIUMCVSS out of 10
What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-115791 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.3. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Remediation and response

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Vendor revision: Nov 12, 2026

Release Notes

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSSUnavailableNo current score collected
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview

What is CVE-2026-115791?

When tarfile or zipfile command line interface (CLI) is used to

decompress an archive, a Python script shadowing the stdlib can be

created. Then if an error occurs during decompressing the next file,

the newly created Python script is executed. This is especially true

if the created Python is called traceback.py. The problem is that

Python adds the current directory to sys.path when python -m MODULE is

run, and the archive is also decompressed in the current directory.

The fix removes sys.path[0] in gzip, tarfile and zipfile command line

interface to prevent shadowing standard library modules from extracted

files.

Source: NVD