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CVE-2026-59875 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 7.5.17, 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 and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
node-tar 7.5 earliest → < 7.5.17 7.5.17

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