CVE-2026-59871 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts to JavaScript numbers, causing downstream path handling such as normalizeWindowsPath(entry.path).split('/') to throw an uncaught TypeError. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/e02a4e9e013c4be95302e2eb2047a942b883c27b
https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/releases/tag/v7.5.18
https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-w8wr-v893-vjvp

History

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts to JavaScript numbers, causing downstream path handling such as normalizeWindowsPath(entry.path).split('/') to throw an uncaught TypeError. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18.
Title		node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion
Weaknesses		CWE-704
References		https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/e02a4e9e013c4be95302e2eb2047a942b883c27b https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/releases/tag/v7.5.18 https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-w8wr-v893-vjvp
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-07-08T15:25:09.519Z

Updated: 2026-07-08T16:13:05.563Z

Reserved: 2026-07-07T15:41:53.607Z

Link: CVE-2026-59871

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-08T16:13:01.142Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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