CVE-2026-59871 node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts to JavaScript numbers, causing downstream path handling such as normalizeWindowsPathentry.path.split'/' to throw an uncaught TypeError. This issue is...

CVE-2026-59871

The CVE concerns the Node.js tar library (node-tar). Before 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts into JavaScript numbers, which leads to downstream path handling (e.g., normalizeWindowsPath(entry.path).split('/')) throwing an uncaught TypeError. This affec...