node tar

A malicious tarball can now quietly escape the bounds of a safe extraction and overwrite files on the host: a newly tracked vulnerability in the widely used Node.js tar library (node‑tar) — identified as CVE‑2026‑29786 — allows a specially crafted hardlink entry whose linkpath uses a...

A crafted tar archive can now turn a routine Node.js extraction into a pathway for reading and writing arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory — a high‑severity flaw in the widely used node‑tar package tracked as CVE‑2026‑26960 that was fixed in node‑tar 7.5.8. Background...