diff --git a/liam_chatbot/utils.py b/liam_chatbot/utils.py
index 14d7103..ec91614 100755
--- a/liam_chatbot/utils.py
+++ b/liam_chatbot/utils.py
@@ -25,7 +25,26 @@ def download_pretrained_model():
 
     logger.info("extracting archive file {} to temp dir {}".format(resolved_archive_file, tempdir))
     with tarfile.open(resolved_archive_file, 'r:gz') as archive:
-        archive.extractall(tempdir)
+        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, tempdir)
     return tempdir