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

Latest release
4.2.1 (Apr 1, 2020): affected by 4 advisories
Newest unaffected release
Every release is affected by at least one advisory
Advisories
5 · 2 critical, 2 medium
Weekly downloads
3.8M
Dependents
26.7K
Releases
41 since 0.1.0 (Aug 23, 2013)
Registry
npm
Releases read
Nov 8, 2026

Version timeline

Every release cve.now has on record, lowest version on the left; each bar is a run of versions an advisory affects.

Advisories 5

  • CVE-2026-101894Critical 9.1

    @xhmikosr/decompress: Path traversal via symlink chain

    Affected: through 4.2.1.

    No fix released. The latest release, 4.2.1, is still affected.

    100% of decompress downloads last week were affected versions (4.6M).

  • CVE-2026-53486Critical 9.1

    decompress: Archive extraction can create files and links outside the target directory

    Affected: through 4.2.1.

    No fix released. The latest release, 4.2.1, is still affected.

    100% of decompress downloads last week were affected versions (4.6M).

  • CVE-2026-39243Medium 5.5

    decompress before 4.2.2 allows arbitrary hardlink creation during archive extraction, enabling file read disclosure and file corruption.

    Affected: through 4.2.1.

    No fix released. The latest release, 4.2.1, is still affected.

    100% of decompress downloads last week were affected versions (4.6M).

  • CVE-2026-10732Medium 6.1

    All versions of the package decompress are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) when extracting a ZIP…

    Affected: through 4.2.1.

    No fix released. The latest release, 4.2.1, is still affected.

    100% of decompress downloads last week were affected versions (4.6M).

  • The decompress package before 4.2.1 for Node.js is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via ../ in an archive member, when a symlink is…

    Affected: fixed in 4.2.1.

    Fixed in 4.2.1 (released Apr 1, 2020, 25 days before disclosure).

    The latest release, 4.2.1, is not affected.

    4.7% of decompress downloads last week were affected versions (219.2K).