CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2024-12905
High (7.5). EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in tar-fs 1.16.4, 2.1.2, 3.0.7.
An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package.
This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-22, CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-pq67-2wwv-3xjx | npm | tar-fs | <1.16.4 | 1.16.4 |
| GHSA-pq67-2wwv-3xjx | npm | tar-fs | >=2.0.0 <2.1.2 | 2.1.2 |
| GHSA-pq67-2wwv-3xjx | npm | tar-fs | >=3.0.0 <3.0.7 | 3.0.7 |