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node-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
Affected packages
- tar
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
- —
- EPSS percentile
- —
EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73566
- https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/631ae59121bf8fc8a22bbae35f074cb9b789cd4a
- https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar
- https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/releases/tag/v7.5.21
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m
Recommended response stack
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