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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | node-tar Symlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-09T21:11:56.668Z
Reserved: 2026-03-09T16:33:42.913Z
Link: CVE-2026-31802
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