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CVE-2026-29786

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.3 Published: 2026-03-07 Modified: 2026-07-15

Description

node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.10, tar can be tricked into creating a hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside cwd during normal tar.x() extraction. This issue has been patched in version 7.5.10.

Affected Platforms

Isaacs Tar

Weakness Type

CWE-22, CWE-59, CWE-22, CWE-22

References