VYPR
Medium severity5.3OSV Advisory· Published Jul 8, 2026· Updated Jul 10, 2026

CVE-2026-59871

CVE-2026-59871

Description

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts to JavaScript numbers, causing downstream path handling such as normalizeWindowsPath(entry.path).split('/') to throw an uncaught TypeError. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
tarnpm
< 7.5.187.5.18

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