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tar

Ecosystem:
npm
Package URL:
pkg:npm/tar
Total PRs:
15,782 Dependabot PRs
Latest PR:
1 day ago
Unique Repositories:
11,413 repositories
Unique Repos (30 days):
205 repositories
Security Advisories
node-tar Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via Hardlink Path Traversal
GHSA-34x7-hfp2-rc4v CVE-2026-24842 HIGH published 4 months ago • updated 5 days ago
### Summary node-tar contains a vulnerability where the security check for hardlink entries uses different path resolution semantics than the actua...
Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite due to insufficient absolute path sanitization
GHSA-3jfq-g458-7qm9 CVE-2021-32804 HIGH published almost 5 years ago • updated about 4 hours ago
### Impact Arbitrary File Creation, Arbitrary File Overwrite, Arbitrary Code Execution `node-tar` aims to prevent extraction of absolute file pat...
Arbitrary File Read/Write via Hardlink Target Escape Through Symlink Chain in node-tar Extraction
GHSA-83g3-92jg-28cx CVE-2026-26960 HIGH published 3 months ago • updated 22 days ago
### Summary `tar.extract()` in Node `tar` allows an attacker-controlled archive to create a hardlink inside the extraction directory that points to...
Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite on Windows via insufficient relative path sanitization
GHSA-5955-9wpr-37jh CVE-2021-37713 HIGH published over 4 years ago • updated about 4 hours ago
### Impact Arbitrary File Creation, Arbitrary File Overwrite, Arbitrary Code Execution node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location wo...
Race Condition in node-tar Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFS
GHSA-r6q2-hw4h-h46w CVE-2026-23950 HIGH published 4 months ago • updated 5 days ago
**TITLE**: Race Condition in node-tar Path Reservations via Unicode Sharp-S (ß) Collisions on macOS APFS **AUTHOR**: Tomás Illuminati ### Details...
Recent PRs
Bump tar from 6.2.1 to 7.5.15

FloSmt/TippApp #171

6.2.1 → 7.5.15 Major PR
Open 8 days ago 1 comment
FloSmt
Package Details
Name: tar
Ecosystem: npm
PURL Type: npm
Package URL: pkg:npm/tar
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Security Advisories

14

Active advisories
HIGH 13
MODERATE 1
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Package Information
Description:

tar for node

Repository: https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar
Homepage: https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar#readme
Latest Release: 7.4.3
almost 2 years ago
Dependent Repos: 3,179,743
Dependent Packages: 5,040
Downloads: 170,210,137
Ranking: Top 0.0051% by dependent repos Top 0.0126% by downloads Top 0.0176% by dependent pkgs
PR Status
Open 6,173 (39.1%)
Merged 321 (2.0%)
Closed 9,128 (57.8%)
PR Types
Major 2,775 (17.6%)
Minor 4,768 (30.2%)
Patch 6,505 (41.2%)
Removal 1,337 (8.5%)