From 25f7fc40a25191d7cab72ddb3a778668a635fbb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Berquist <727571+berquist@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:46:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] TarFile.extractall() now warns when not specifying extraction
 filter (#1125)

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile-extraction-filter
for more information.
---
 src/sst/core/testingframework/sst_unittest_support.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sst/core/testingframework/sst_unittest_support.py b/src/sst/core/testingframework/sst_unittest_support.py
index f47a89c55..5fb46232e 100644
--- a/src/sst/core/testingframework/sst_unittest_support.py
+++ b/src/sst/core/testingframework/sst_unittest_support.py
@@ -1670,7 +1670,7 @@ def os_extract_tar(tarfilepath, targetdir="."):
             targetdir (str): Where to extract to [.]
 
         Returns:
-            (bool) True if wget is successful.
+            (bool) True if untar is successful.
     """
     if not os.path.isfile(tarfilepath):
         errmsg = "tar file{0} does not exist".format(tarfilepath)
@@ -1678,7 +1678,10 @@ def os_extract_tar(tarfilepath, targetdir="."):
         return False
     try:
         this_tar = tarfile.open(tarfilepath)
-        this_tar.extractall(targetdir)
+        if sys.version_info.minor >= 12:
+            this_tar.extractall(targetdir, filter="data")
+        else:
+            this_tar.extractall(targetdir)
         this_tar.close()
         return True
     except tarfile.TarError as exc_e: