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  • High 8.2
    CVE-2026-31802 Public exploit

    node-tar Symlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath

    node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.11, tar (npm) can be tricked into creating a symlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative symlink target such as C:../../../target.txt, which enables file over…

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  • High 8.2
    CVE-2026-29786 Public exploit

    node-tar: Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath

    node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.10, tar can be tricked into creating a hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside …

    isaacs node-tar tar node-tar Debian Ubuntu npm
  • High 8.2
    CVE-2026-23745 Public exploit

    node-tar Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite and Symlink Poisoning via Insufficient Path Sanitization

    node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. The node-tar library (<= 7.5.2) fails to sanitize the linkpath of Link (hardlink) and SymbolicLink entries when preservePaths is false (the default secure behavior). This allows malicious archives to bypass the extraction root r…

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  • High 8.2
    CVE-2021-32804 Public exploit EPSS 15%

    Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite due to insufficient absolute path sanitization

    The npm package "tar" (aka node-tar) before versions 6.1.1, 5.0.6, 4.4.14, and 3.3.2 has a arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite vulnerability due to insufficient absolute path sanitization. node-tar aims to prevent extraction of absolute file paths by turning ab…

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