Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Jul 9, 2026
Debian node-tar: node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, tar…
CVE-2026-59874
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.
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