Vulnerability in Alexcrichton Tar-rs
CVE-2026-33055
tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar proje…
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Affected products
- Alexcrichton Tar-rs — versions < 0.4.45
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-gchp-q4r4-x4ff (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/commit/de1a5870e603758f430073688691165f21a33946 (x_refsource_MISC)
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62518 (x_refsource_MISC)