node-tar: tar: node-tar: Arbitrary file overwrite and symlink poisoning via unsanitized linkpaths in archives

A flaw was found in the node-tar library. This vulnerability allows an attacker to craft malicious archives that, when extracted, can bypass intended security restrictions. This leads to arbitrary file overwrite and symlink poisoning, potentially allowing unauthorized modification of files on the...

CLSA-2026-1777564129 tar: Fix of CVE-2019-9923

CVE-2019-9923: fix NULL pointer dereference in paxdecodeheader on malformed PAX extended headers...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in node-tar affects IBM watsonx Assistant Cartridge and IBM watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge.

Summary Potential vulnerability in node-tar has been identified that affects IBM watsonx Assistant Cartridge and IBM watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - Assistant Builder Component. . The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information...

CLSA-2026-1777043727 tar: Fix of CVE-2019-9923

CVE-2019-9923: fix possible NULL dereference in paxdecodeheader...

Amazon Linux 2023 : below (ALAS2023-2026-1567)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1567 advisory. tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As par...

Medium: clamav1.5

Issue Overview: tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size...

File Inclusion node-tar Dependency in Confluence Data Center

This High severity File Inclusion vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.3, 9.1.0, 9.2.5, 9.5.1, 10.1.2, and 10.2.0 of Confluence Data Center. This File Inclusion vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.2 and a CVSS Vector of...

USN-8138-1 rust-tar vulnerability

It was discovered that tar-rs incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside the extraction root, a...

golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. tar.Reader does not set a maximum size on the number of sparse region data blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. A specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33055

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size headers in the...

CVE-2026-33056 tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...

CVE-2026-33056 tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...

CVE-2026-33055

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size headers in the...

CVE-2026-33055

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size headers in the...

CVE-2026-32766 astral-tokio-tar insufficiently validates PAX extensions during extraction

astral-tokio-tar is a tar archive reading/writing library for async Rust. In versions 0.5.6 and earlier, malformed PAX extensions were silently skipped when parsing tar archives. This silent skipping rather than rejection of invalid PAX extensions could be used as a building block for a parser...

AZL-79556 CVE-2026-29786 affecting package tar 1.34-3

node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.10, tar can be tricked into creating a hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside cwd during normal tar.x extraction. Th...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-29786

node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.10, tar can be tricked into creating a hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside cwd during normal tar.x extraction. Th...

Amazon Linux 2023 : nodejs20, nodejs20-devel, nodejs20-full-i18n (ALAS2023-2026-1464)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1464 advisory. node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. The node-tar library = 7.5.2 fails to sanitize the linkpath of Link hardlink and SymbolicLink entries when preservePaths is false the default secure behavior. Th...

GHSA-QFFP-2RHF-9H96 tar has Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath

Summary tar npm can be tricked into creating a hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside cwd during normal tar.x extraction. Details The extraction logic in UnpackSTRIPABSOLUTEPATH chec...

CLEANSTART-2026-NY12442 node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node

Multiple security vulnerabilities affect the npm package. node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node. See references for individual vulnerability details...