🛡️ CVE-2026-59875 on Debian — node-tar

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.17.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-59875 as tracked by Debian, for the package node-tar. The fix is available in version 7.5.19+~4.0.1-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59875 is classified as CWE-248: Uncaught Exception. An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59875 is recorded against 1 package.

node-tar (fixed in 7.5.19+~4.0.1-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 July 2026 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2026-07-08

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-08-04

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
node-tar	—	7.5.19+~4.0.1-1

References

ADVISORY https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-59875

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