MEDIUM4.5

PYSEC-2026-807

eyeD3 is vulnerable to arbitrary file modification via symlink attack

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-807 — eyed3: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'eyed3>=0.7.5'

Details

tag.py in eyeD3 (aka python-eyed3) 0.7.5 and earlier for Python allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/eyed3

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.7.5

Fixpip install --upgrade 'eyed3>=0.7.5'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1934[ADVISORY]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737062[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063671[WEB]
https://github.com/nicfit/eyeD3[PACKAGE]
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=594272[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00027.html[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00028.html[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/eyed3[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4r2w-w73w-36jm[ADVISORY]