diff --git a/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/conll.py b/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/conll.py
index b2602e9..d725d98 100644
--- a/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/conll.py
+++ b/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/conll.py
@@ -375,7 +375,26 @@ def _extract_archive(self):
         root = self._root
         path = os.path.join(root, archive_file_name)
         with tarfile.open(path, 'r:gz') as tar:
-            tar.extractall(path=root)
+            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(tar, path=root)
         for fn in glob.glob(os.path.join(root, 'conll04st-release', '*.gz')):
             shutil.copy(fn, root)
         shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(root, 'conll04st-release'), ignore_errors=True)
@@ -461,7 +480,26 @@ def _extract_archive(self):
         root = self._root
         path = os.path.join(root, archive_file_name)
         with tarfile.open(path, 'r:gz') as tar:
-            tar.extractall(path=root)
+            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(tar, path=root)
         for fn in glob.glob(os.path.join(root, 'ud-treebanks-v2.1', '*', '*.conllu')):
             shutil.copy(fn, root)
         for data_license in glob.glob(os.path.join(root, 'ud-treebanks-v2.1', '*', 'LICENSE.txt')):
diff --git a/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/corpora/google_billion_word.py b/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/corpora/google_billion_word.py
index 36128a4..1a375a4 100644
--- a/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/corpora/google_billion_word.py
+++ b/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/corpora/google_billion_word.py
@@ -123,7 +123,26 @@ def _get_data(self):
                          path=self._root, sha1_hash=archive_hash)
             # extract archive
             with tarfile.open(archive_file_path, 'r:gz') as tf:
-                tf.extractall(path=self._root)
+                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(tf, path=self._root)
 
     def _get_vocab(self):
         archive_file_name, archive_hash = self._archive_vocab
diff --git a/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/word_embedding_evaluation.py b/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/word_embedding_evaluation.py
index a2e6bec..17f148f 100644
--- a/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/word_embedding_evaluation.py
+++ b/benchmarks/gluon-nlp/src/gluonnlp/data/word_embedding_evaluation.py
@@ -75,7 +75,26 @@ def _download_data(self):
                         zf.extractall(path=self.root)
                 elif downloaded_file_path.lower().endswith('tar.gz'):
                     with tarfile.open(downloaded_file_path, 'r') as tf:
-                        tf.extractall(path=self.root)
+                        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(tf, path=self.root)
                 elif len(self._checksums) > 1:
                     err = 'Failed retrieving {clsname}.'.format(
                         clsname=self.__class__.__name__)