esm.sh has a path traversal in extractPackageTarball enables file writes from malicious packages

Summary The commit does not actually fix the path traversal bug. path.Clean basically normalizes a path but does not prevent absolute paths in a malicious tar file. PoC This test file can demonstrate the basic idea pretty easily: go package server import "archive/tar" "bytes" "compress/gzip"...

GHSA-2657-3C98-63JQ esm.sh has a path traversal in extractPackageTarball enables file writes from malicious packages

Summary The commit does not actually fix the path traversal bug. path.Clean basically normalizes a path but does not prevent absolute paths in a malicious tar file. PoC This test file can demonstrate the basic idea pretty easily: go package server import "archive/tar" "bytes" "compress/gzip"...

CVE-2026-23950

A flaw was found in node-tar, a library for Node.js. This race condition vulnerability occurs due to incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions within the path-reservations system on case-insensitive filesystems, such as macOS APFS. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a specially...

Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding

Overview tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding in Path Reservations via Unicode Sharp-S ß Collisions on macOS APFS. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files by exploiting Unicode normalization collisions ...

Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding

Overview org.webjars.npm:tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding in Path Reservations via Unicode Sharp-S ß Collisions on macOS APFS. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files by exploiting Unicode...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23950

node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the path-reservations system. On case-insensitive or normalization-insensitive filesystems such as macOS APFS, In which it has...

CVE-2026-23950

node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the path-reservations system. On case-insensitive or normalization-insensitive filesystems such as macOS APFS, In which it has...

CVE-2026-23950

node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the path-reservations system. On case-insensitive or normalization-insensitive filesystems such as macOS APFS, In which it has...

CVE-2026-23950 node-tar has Race Condition in Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFS

node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the path-reservations system. On case-insensitive or normalization-insensitive filesystems such as macOS APFS, In which it has...

CVE-2026-23950

Summary of CVE-2026-23950 (node-tar) : A race condition in node-tar’s path-reservations on macOS APFS/HFS+ enables parallel processing of conflicting Unicode paths (e.g., “ß” vs “ss”), bypassing internal locks and allowing an Arbitrary File Overwrite . Affected are node-tar versions up to 7.5.3; ...

CVE-2026-23950

node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the path-reservations system. On case-insensitive or normalization-insensitive filesystems such as macOS APFS, In which it has...

CVE-2026-23950 node-tar has Race Condition in Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFS

node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the path-reservations system. On case-insensitive or normalization-insensitive filesystems such as macOS APFS, In which it has...

PT-2026-3529

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions node-tar versions up to and including 7.5.3 Description node-tar, a Tar for Node.js, contains a race condition due to incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions within the path-reservations system. This issue occurs on case-insensitive or...

node-tar security vulnerability

node-tar is a software package for file compression/decompression developed by Isaacs. Versions of node-tar 7.5.3 and earlier contain security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem from incomplete handling of Unicode path conflicts, which may lead to race conditions, allowing arbitrary file...

MiracleLinux 8 : container-tools:2.0 (AXSA:2020-866:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2020-866:01 advisory. buildah: Crafted input tar file may lead to local file overwrite during image build process CVE-2020-10696 Bug Fixes: podman 1.6.4 is not honouring...

MiracleLinux 9 : gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.18.4-6.el9 (AXSA:2023-5649:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2023-5649:01 advisory. gstreamer-plugins-good: Potential heap overwrite in gstmatroskademuxaddwvpkheader CVE-2022-1920 gstreamer-plugins-good: Heap-based buffer overflow i...

MiracleLinux 8 : kernel-4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8 (AXSA:2023-5865:16)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2023-5865:16 advisory. use-after-free caused by l2capreassemblesdu in net/bluetooth/l2capcore.c CVE-2022-3564 net/ulp: use-after-free in listening ULP sockets CVE-2023-046...

MiracleLinux 8 : gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.16.1-3.el8 (AXSA:2024-8315:02)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2024-8315:02 advisory. gstreamer-plugins-base: heap overwrite in subtitle parsing CVE-2023-37328 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinu...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2025-0626

The "monitor" binary in the firmware of the affected product attempts to mount to a hard-coded, routable IP address, bypassing existing device network settings to do so. The function also enables the network interface of the device if it is disabled. The function is triggered by attempting to...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-23950

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path...