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7.5.22 · 24 Jul 2026BlueOak-1.0.0117.9M / weekRepositoryHomepagenpmAtom feed
Upgrading tar From 6.1.8 to 7.5.22
42 releases in betweennotes for 0
7.0.0 has no release note on GitHub or in the repository's changelog, so its breaking changes are missing from the counts below.
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Counted from 0 of 42 release notes. Advisories are counted from the advisory database, in full.
Security
Fixes 15 advisories affecting 6.1.8
- node-tar: Decompression/parse DoS via unlimited inputcritical · GHSA-23hp-3jrh-7fpw
- node-tar Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via Hardlink Path Traversalhigh · GHSA-34x7-hfp2-rc4v
- Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite on Windows via insufficient relative path sanitizationhigh · GHSA-5955-9wpr-37jh
- Arbitrary File Read/Write via Hardlink Target Escape Through Symlink Chain in node-tar Extractionhigh · GHSA-83g3-92jg-28cx
- node-tar is Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite and Symlink Poisoning via Insufficient Path Sanitizationhigh · GHSA-8qq5-rm4j-mr97
- node-tar: Negative tar entry size causes infinite loop in archive replacehigh · GHSA-8x88-c5mf-7j5w
- node-tar Symlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpathhigh · GHSA-9ppj-qmqm-q256
- Denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validationmoderate · GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36
- node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath recordsmoderate · GHSA-gvwx-54wh-qm9j
- tar has Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpathhigh · GHSA-qffp-2rhf-9h96
- Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic linkshigh · GHSA-qq89-hq3f-393p
- node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selectionhigh · GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m
- Race Condition in node-tar Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFShigh · GHSA-r6q2-hw4h-h46w
- node-tar applies PAX size override to intermediary GNU long-name/long-link headers, causing tar parser interpretation differential (file smuggling)moderate · GHSA-vmf3-w455-68vh
- node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusionmoderate · GHSA-w8wr-v893-vjvp