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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2026-59875

node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

isaacs node-tar

  • < 7.5.17affected

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