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CVE-2026-31802
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-03-10T07:44:58.020 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:34:29.490

Summary

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 overwrite outside cwd during normal tar.x() extraction. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.11.

Affected products

isaacs — tar

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References

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