CVE-2026-59874
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.
- Affected products
- Confluence, Rocky Linux, Node-Tar
- Isaacs Tar
- < 7.5.18
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.7 HIGH
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.4% (34th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-08
CVE-2026-59874 at NVD
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