Security Advisory

CVE-2026-59874

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, tar.replace accepts a checksum-valid tar header with a negative base-256 encoded entry size, causing the archive scanner to make no progress while repeatedly parsing the same header. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18.
Published Date July 8, 2026
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory