Tar
44 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.
This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Tar, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.
Tar CVEs per month
| Month | CVEs |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 0 |
| 2024-11 | 0 |
| 2024-12 | 0 |
| 2025-01 | 0 |
| 2025-02 | 0 |
| 2025-03 | 0 |
| 2025-04 | 0 |
| 2025-05 | 0 |
| 2025-06 | 0 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 0 |
| 2025-09 | 0 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 0 |
| 2025-12 | 0 |
| 2026-01 | 3 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 3 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 4 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 0 |
Severity
How the 44 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.
- Critical1
- High18
- Medium20
- Low3
Latest CVEs
The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Tar.
- CVE-2026-18477Tar: tar: toctou in incremental dumpdir 'x' rename handling allows restore path escape4.4
- CVE-2026-18508Tar: tar: --one-top-level hardlink targets not confined to top-level directory enabling arbitrary file overwrite4.4
- GHSA-r292-9mhp-454mnode-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection—
- CVE-2026-59871node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion5.3
- CVE-2026-59874node-tar: Negative tar entry size causes infinite loop in archive replace7.5
- CVE-2026-59873node-tar: Decompression/parse DoS via unlimited input7.5
- CVE-2026-53655node-tar applies PAX size override to intermediary GNU long-name/long-link headers, causing tar parser interpretation differential (file smuggling)5.5
- GHSA-3pv8-6f4r-ffg2tar has a PAX header desynchronization issue—
- CVE-2026-5704Tar: tar: hidden file injection via crafted archives5.0
- CVE-2026-33056tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks6.5
- CVE-2026-31802node-tar Symlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath5.5
- CVE-2026-29786node-tar: Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath6.3
- CVE-2026-26960node-tar has Arbitrary File Read/Write via Hardlink Target Escape Through Symlink Chain in Extraction7.1
- CVE-2026-24842node-tar Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via Hardlink Path Traversal8.2
- CVE-2026-23950node-tar has Race Condition in Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFS8.8
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