PT-2026-56495
CVE-2026-59875
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Published
2026-07-08
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Updated
2026-10-15
Description by
CVSS 3.1
5.3
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
node-tar versions prior to 7.5.17
Description
The library fails to strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in the
src/pax.ts file. This allows a specially crafted archive to pass these values to fs.lstat or fs.open, resulting in an uncaught exception that terminates the process.Recommendations
Update to version 7.5.17.
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