CVE Tools

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

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Tar CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
2024-100
2024-110
2024-120
2025-010
2025-020
2025-030
2025-040
2025-050
2025-060
2025-071
2025-080
2025-090
2025-101
2025-110
2025-120
2026-013
2026-021
2026-033
2026-041
2026-051
2026-061
2026-074
2026-082
2026-090

Severity

How the 44 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • Critical12%
  • High1843%
  • Medium2048%
  • Low37%

Latest CVEs

The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Tar.

  1. CVE-2026-18477Tar: tar: toctou in incremental dumpdir 'x' rename handling allows restore path escape4.4
  2. CVE-2026-18508Tar: tar: --one-top-level hardlink targets not confined to top-level directory enabling arbitrary file overwrite4.4
  3. GHSA-r292-9mhp-454mnode-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection—
  4. CVE-2026-59871node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion5.3
  5. CVE-2026-59874node-tar: Negative tar entry size causes infinite loop in archive replace7.5
  6. CVE-2026-59873node-tar: Decompression/parse DoS via unlimited input7.5
  7. 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
  8. GHSA-3pv8-6f4r-ffg2tar has a PAX header desynchronization issue—
  9. CVE-2026-5704Tar: tar: hidden file injection via crafted archives5.0
  10. CVE-2026-33056tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks6.5
  11. CVE-2026-31802node-tar Symlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath5.5
  12. CVE-2026-29786node-tar: Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath6.3
  13. CVE-2026-26960node-tar has Arbitrary File Read/Write via Hardlink Target Escape Through Symlink Chain in Extraction7.1
  14. CVE-2026-24842node-tar Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via Hardlink Path Traversal8.2
  15. CVE-2026-23950node-tar has Race Condition in Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFS8.8

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