diff --git a/mrjob/util.py b/mrjob/util.py
index 589029e45..0b10012ca 100644
--- a/mrjob/util.py
+++ b/mrjob/util.py
@@ -346,7 +346,26 @@ def unarchive(archive_path, dest):
     """
     if tarfile.is_tarfile(archive_path):
         with tarfile.open(archive_path, 'r') as archive:
-            archive.extractall(dest)
+            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(archive, dest)
     elif is_zipfile(archive_path):
         with ZipFile(archive_path, 'r') as archive:
             for name in archive.namelist():