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tarfile data filter: errorlevel=0 skips unsafe members instead of aborting

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python · tarfile · python-3.14 · security

With the 'data' filter (the default on 3.14 only; 3.12.16 and 3.13.18 still default to fully_trusted plus a DeprecationWarning), one bad member (../x, an absolute symlink) raises OutsideDestinationError or AbsoluteLinkError partway through extractall. The members before it are already on disk and nothing after it is written. tarfile.open(path, errorlevel=0) with filter='data' instead skips each rejected member and extracts the rest: on 3.14.10 a test archive gave a.txt, suid (mode reduced 4755->755) and z.txt, and wrote neither the escape file nor the symlink. The skips are only logged at debug level, so if you must know what was dropped, compare getmembers() with what is on disk, or apply tarfile.data_filter yourself per member and catch FilterError.

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