CVE-2026-59875

Description

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.17.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-07-07 | Published 2026-07-08 | Updated 2026-07-09 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-248: Uncaught Exception

Product status

References

github.com/...de-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-gvwx-54wh-qm9j exploit

github.com/...de-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-gvwx-54wh-qm9j

github.com/...ommit/7a635c29f5edbf083557374d43984273ecfed5b3

github.com/isaacs/node-tar/releases/tag/v7.5.17

cve.org (CVE-2026-59875)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-59875)

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