CVE-2024-28863: medium-severity vulnerability in isaacs node-tar
node-tar vulnerable to denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.9%
node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
isaacs · node-tarRelated CVEs — isaacs node-tar
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-59871MEDIUMnode-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusionEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-24842HIGHnode-tar Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via Hardlink Path TraversalEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-59873CRITICALnode-tar: Decompression/parse DoS via unlimited inputEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-73566HIGHnode-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selectionEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-29786HIGHnode-tar: Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative LinkpathEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-59874HIGHnode-tar: Negative tar entry size causes infinite loop in archive replaceEPSS 0.4%