Archive/tar
6 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.
This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Archive/tar, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.
Archive/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 | 0 |
| 2025-08 | 0 |
| 2025-09 | 0 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 0 |
| 2025-12 | 0 |
| 2026-01 | 0 |
| 2026-02 | 0 |
| 2026-03 | 0 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 0 |
| 2026-07 | 0 |
| 2026-08 | 0 |
| 2026-09 | 0 |
Severity
How the 6 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.
- Critical1
- High3
- Medium2
Latest CVEs
The 6 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Archive/tar.
- CVE-2026-9538Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header7.5
- CVE-2026-42497Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the extraction directory7.5
- CVE-2026-42496Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory9.1
- CVE-2026-32288Unbounded allocation for old GNU sparse in archive/tar5.5
- CVE-2025-58183Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map in archive/tar4.3
- CVE-2022-2879Unbounded memory consumption when reading headers in archive/tar7.5
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