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False negative: B202 unsafe tarfile.extract() not detected #1392

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@9iang22

Describe the bug

B202 is intended to detect unsafe tar extraction patterns (CWE-22), but the current implementation only checks for extractall calls and misses unsafe extract usage.

Reproduction steps

cat > /tmp/repro_b202_extract_fn.py <<'PY'
import tarfile
import tempfile
from pathlib import Path
def unsafe_archive_handler(filename):
    target_dir = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp())
    tar = tarfile.open(filename)
    for member in tar.getmembers():
        # Vulnerable: no validation of member.name/linkname
        tar.extract(member, path=target_dir)
    tar.close()
PY
bandit -r /tmp/repro_b202_extract_fn.py -t B202

Expected behavior

B202 should also detect an unsafe tarfile.extract() usage, not only extractall().

Bandit version

1.9.1 (Default)

Python version

3.14 (Default)

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