# archive/tar (Go) vulnerabilities

3 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://pkg.go.dev/archive/tar

## Advisories (3)

### [CVE-2026-32288](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-32288): Unbounded allocation for old GNU sparse in archive/tar

- Severity: Medium 5.5
- Published: Apr 8, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 1.25.9; from 1.26.0-0, fixed in 1.26.2.

### [CVE-2025-58183](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-58183): Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map in archive/tar

- Severity: Medium 4.3
- Published: Oct 29, 2025
- Affected: fixed in 1.24.8; from 1.25.0, fixed in 1.25.2.

### [CVE-2022-2879](https://cve.now/CVE-2022-2879): Unbounded memory consumption when reading headers in archive/tar

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Oct 14, 2022
- Affected: fixed in 1.18.7; from 1.19.0-0, fixed in 1.19.2.

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