# nanotar (npm) vulnerabilities

1 known vulnerability (1 critical), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: 0.3.0 (Feb 11, 2026): no advisory affects it
- Newest unaffected release: 0.3.0 (Feb 11, 2026), the latest release
- Weekly downloads: 3.4M
- Dependents: 610
- Releases: 5 since 0.0.0 (Dec 9, 2023)
- Registry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nanotar
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2025-69874: 0.0.0 to 0.2.0 (0.2.1 is outside it)

## Advisories (1)

### [CVE-2025-69874](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-69874): nanotar through 0.2.0 has a path traversal vulnerability in parseTar() and parseTarGzip() that allows remote attackers to write arbitrary…

- Severity: Critical 9.8
- Published: Feb 11, 2026
- Affected: through 0.2.0.
- Fixed in 0.2.1 (released Feb 11, 2026, the day of disclosure), the first release outside every affected range (no listed fixed version clears them all).
- The latest release, 0.3.0, is not affected.
- 16% of nanotar downloads last week were affected versions (551.1K).

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