PT-2026-56495 · Isaacs · Node-Tar

Published 2026-07-08 · Updated 2026-07-08 · CVE-2026-59875

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-248

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-59875

Affected Products

Node-Tar

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59875 · Security Note
• https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/releases/tag/v7.5.17 · Note
• https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-gvwx-54wh-qm9j · Note
• https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/7a635c29f5edbf083557374d43984273ecfed5b3 · Note