9.2
Critical
CVE-2026-59873 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 7.5.19, node-tar does not enforce hard upper bounds on total decompressed data, entry counts, or decompression ratio in extraction and parsing paths such as src/extract.ts, allowing a small crafted gzip bomb to exhaust disk space and CPU. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.19.
Affected products and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| node-tar 7.5 | earliest → < 7.5.19 | 7.5.19 |
References
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