CVE-2026-59875node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records

Description

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.17.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-gvwx-54wh-qm9j
• https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/7a635c29f5edbf083557374d43984273ecfed5b3
• https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/releases/tag/v7.5.17