# tar (crates.io) vulnerabilities

4 known vulnerabilities (2 medium), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: not known (cve.now hasn't read this package's releases)
- Newest unaffected release: not known without release data
- Registry: https://crates.io/crates/tar

## Advisories (4)

### [CVE-2026-33056](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-33056): tar-rs: unpack\_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks

- Severity: Medium 5.1
- Published: Mar 20, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 0.4.45; fixed in 0.4.45.

### [CVE-2026-33055](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-33055): tar-rs incorrectly ignores PAX size headers if header size is nonzero

- Severity: Medium 5.1
- Published: Mar 20, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 0.4.45; fixed in 0.4.45.

### [CVE-2021-38511](https://cve.now/CVE-2021-38511): An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust.

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Aug 10, 2021
- Affected: fixed in 0.4.36; fixed in 0.4.36.

### [CVE-2018-20990](https://cve.now/CVE-2018-20990): An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust.

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Aug 26, 2019
- Affected: fixed in 0.4.16; fixed in 0.4.16.

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