CVE-2026-59871

A flaw was found in node-tar, a library for manipulating tar archives in Node.js. This vulnerability occurs when the library incorrectly converts specific archive path values into numbers, leading to an error during subsequent path processing. An attacker could exploit this to cause the applicati...

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

CVE-2026-59871 affects the node-tar library for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values to JavaScript numbers in src/pax.ts, causing downstream path handling (e.g., normalizeWindowsPath(entry.path).split('/')) to throw an uncaught TypeError. Red H...