CVE-2026-59875
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.
- Affected products
- Node-Tar
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 0.3% (21th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-248
- NVD status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-07-08
CVE-2026-59875 at NVD
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