Security Advisory
CVE-2026-59875
5.3
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.17.
Published Date
July 8, 2026
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory