CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2024-28863
Medium (6.5) in isaacs tar. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in node-tar 6.2.1.
node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 60% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-400, CWE-770
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- isaacs:tar
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36 | npm | node-tar | <6.2.1 | 6.2.1 |
| GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36 | npm | tar | <6.2.1 | 6.2.1 |
References
- https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7
- https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0005/
- https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7
- https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36