diff --git a/HandRecognizer/models/official/nlp/transformer/data_download.py b/HandRecognizer/models/official/nlp/transformer/data_download.py
index e3ce7fc..8d73e75 100644
--- a/HandRecognizer/models/official/nlp/transformer/data_download.py
+++ b/HandRecognizer/models/official/nlp/transformer/data_download.py
@@ -203,7 +203,26 @@ def download_and_extract(path, url, input_filename, target_filename):
   # Extract compressed files
   logging.info("Extracting %s.", compressed_file)
   with tarfile.open(compressed_file, "r:gz") as corpus_tar:
-    corpus_tar.extractall(path)
+    def is_within_directory(directory, target):
+        
+        abs_directory = os.path.abspath(directory)
+        abs_target = os.path.abspath(target)
+    
+        prefix = os.path.commonprefix([abs_directory, abs_target])
+        
+        return prefix == abs_directory
+    
+    def safe_extract(tar, path=".", members=None, *, numeric_owner=False):
+    
+        for member in tar.getmembers():
+            member_path = os.path.join(path, member.name)
+            if not is_within_directory(path, member_path):
+                raise Exception("Attempted Path Traversal in Tar File")
+    
+        tar.extractall(path, members, numeric_owner=numeric_owner) 
+        
+    
+    safe_extract(corpus_tar, path)
 
   # Return file paths of the requested files.
   input_file = find_file(path, input_filename)