CVE-2026-59871

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
isaacsnode-tar< 7.5.18affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-704: CWE-704: Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

Additional References

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