Race Condition in node-tar Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFS

TITLE: Race Condition in node-tar Path Reservations via Unicode Sharp-S ß Collisions on macOS APFS AUTHOR: Tomás Illuminati Details A race condition vulnerability exists in node-tar v7.5.3 this is to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the path-reservations system. On...

CVE-2025-56353

In tinyMQTT commit 6226ade15bd4f97be2d196352e64dd10937c1962 2024-02-18, a memory leak occurs due to the broker's failure to validate or reject malformed UTF-8 strings in topic filters. An attacker can exploit this by sending repeated subscription requests with arbitrarily large or invalid filter...

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...

UBUNTU-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

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

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; ...

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...

CVE-2025-56353

In tinyMQTT commit 6226ade15bd4f97be2d196352e64dd10937c1962 2024-02-18, a memory leak occurs due to the broker's failure to validate or reject malformed UTF-8 strings in topic filters. An attacker can exploit this by sending repeated subscription requests with arbitrarily large or invalid filter...

MiracleLinux 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (AXSA:2022-2905:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2022-2905:01 advisory. python: Information disclosure via pydoc CVE-2021-3426 python: urllib: Regular expression DoS in AbstractBasicAuthHandler CVE-2021-3733 python-lxml:...