CVE-2026-59875 - node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records

CVE-2026-59875 - node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records

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CVE ID :CVE-2026-59875
Published : July 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m. | 29 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 5.3 | MEDIUM
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