CVE-2026-59875

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 71/100
Published: 2026-07-08 Modified: 2026-10-25 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: Low

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

71 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.35%
Raw Score 0.003540
Percentile 29.1%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00354
2026-10-28
0.00354

Intelligence Sources

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