CVE-2026-73566 node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.21, node-tar's filesFilter in src/list.ts uses the recursive mapHas helper to walk an archive entry path upward with path.dirname and no segment cap when tar.t... or tar.x... receives a non-empty member-selection list. A...

CVE-2026-73566 node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.21, node-tar's filesFilter in src/list.ts uses the recursive mapHas helper to walk an archive entry path upward with path.dirname and no segment cap when tar.t... or tar.x... receives a non-empty member-selection list. A...

GHSA-R292-9MHP-454M node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection

Summary node-tar npm tar contains an uncontrolled-recursion stack-exhaustion DoS in the internal mapHas helper used by filesFilter. When a consumer calls tar.t... or tar.x... with a non-empty member-selection list, node-tar installs a filter that closes over the recursive mapHas src/list.ts:33-44...

node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection

Summary node-tar npm tar contains an uncontrolled-recursion stack-exhaustion DoS in the internal mapHas helper used by filesFilter. When a consumer calls tar.t... or tar.x... with a non-empty member-selection list, node-tar installs a filter that closes over the recursive mapHas src/list.ts:33-44...

PT-2026-71714

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions node-tar versions prior to 7.5.21 Description The filesFilter in src/list.ts uses a recursive mapHas helper to traverse archive entry paths upward using path.dirname without a segment limit when tar.t... or tar.x... is called with a non-empty...