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CVE-2026-53486

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.1 Published: 2026-07-14 Modified: 2026-07-15

Description

The decompress package for Node.js extracts archives. Prior to 10.2.1 and 11.1.3, archive extraction can create files and links outside the target directory. When extracting an archive to a directory, a crafted archive can read or write files outside that directory because hardlink and symlink entries are created without checking where targets point, path containment used a string prefix comparison, and file modes failed to remove setuid, setgid, or sticky bits. This issue is fixed in @xhmikosr/decompress versions 10.2.1 and 11.1.3.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-22, CWE-59, CWE-732

References