CVE-2026-59875

Published: Jul 8, 2026Modified: Jul 10, 2026Deferred

5.3

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 1.4

Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Description

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.17.

Related CWEs

CWE-248

Uncaught Exception

An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.

References (4)

https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/7a635c29f5edbf083557374d43984273ecfed5b3

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/releases/tag/v7.5.17

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-gvwx-54wh-qm9j

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-gvwx-54wh-qm9j

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

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