K000139643: Node-tar vulnerability CVE-2024-28863

Security Advisory Description

node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders. (CVE-2024-28863)

Impact

This vulnerability allows an attacker to make use of the node-tar module to consume memory on the system and potentially causing the Node.js client to stop working resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS).