Is CVE-2026-79824 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-79824?

CVE-2026-79824 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (8).

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CVE-2026-79824

Description

A directory traversal vulnerability in HPE NonStop Python 3.x could allow attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive.