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CVE-2026-59871

node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
isaacs / node-taraffected < 7.5.18

CWE

CWE-704

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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