What is CVE-2026-59875?

CVE-2026-59875 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Isaacs Node-tar, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-07-08.

How severe is CVE-2026-59875?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Isaacs Node-tar

CVE-2026-59875

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 termin…

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Isaacs Node-tar — versions < 7.5.17

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-248

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-59875?: CVE-2026-59875 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Isaacs Node-tar, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-07-08.
How severe is CVE-2026-59875?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.