tar has 4 CVEs on record between 2021 and 2026. 2 were published in the last 90 days. The median CVSS is 5.3 (medium).
CVEs per month
Last 12 months, by publish date
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- Exploited share
- 0% vs 1% corpus
- Median CVSS
- 5.3
- Publish → KEV
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- Last 90 days
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Total CVEs
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Critical
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CISA KEV
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Exploited
Worst active — by depth score
CVE-2021-38511High· 7.5Links in archive can create arbitrary directories42GHSA-r292-9mhp-454mMedium· 5.3node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection29CVE-2026-59875Medium· 5.3node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records29CVE-2026-53655Mediumnode-tar applies PAX size override to intermediary GNU long-name/long-link headers, causing tar parser interpretation differential (file smuggling)28
tar vulnerabilities
CVEs affecting tar, newest first. Open any entry for full detail, references, and exploit status.
4 CVEsRSS
GHSA-r292-9mhp-454mMedium· 5.3node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection
node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection
▾ Sunlittar · tarvia GHSA
CVE-2026-59875Medium· 5.3node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records
node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records
▾ Sunlittar · tarEPSS 0.51%via GHSA
CVE-2026-53655Mediumnode-tar applies PAX size override to intermediary GNU long-name/long-link headers, causing tar parser interpretation differential (file smuggling)
node-tar applies PAX size override to intermediary GNU long-name/long-link headers, causing tar parser interpretation differential (file smuggling)
▾ Sunlittar · tarEPSS 0.16%via GHSA
CVE-2021-38511High· 7.5Links in archive can create arbitrary directories
Links in archive can create arbitrary directories
▾ Twilighttar · tarEPSS 1.4%via OSV