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CVE-2026-59871GHSA-W8WR-V893-VJVP

node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 7.5.18
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • isaacs node-tar

    fixed in 7.5.18

  • tarnpm

    fixed in 7.5.18

References 3

GitHub · isaacs/node-tar