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CVE-2026-59874

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-07-08 Modified: 2026-07-10

Description

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 Platforms

Isaacs Tar

Weakness Type

CWE-835

References