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CVE-2026-59871 node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js

Description

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts to JavaScript numbers, causing downstream path handling such as normalizeWindowsPath(entry.path).split('/') to throw an uncaught TypeError. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
node-tar 7.5 earliest → < 7.5.18 7.5.18

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