node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.10, tar can be tricked into creating a hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside cwd during normal tar.x() extraction. This issue has been patched in version 7.5.10.
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| Description | node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.10, tar can be tricked into creating a hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside cwd during normal tar.x() extraction. This issue has been patched in version 7.5.10. | |
| Title | node-tar: Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 CWE-59 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-03-07T15:32:22.748Z
Updated: 2026-03-09T18:26:34.057Z
Reserved: 2026-03-04T16:26:02.899Z
Link: CVE-2026-29786
Updated: 2026-03-09T17:52:30.538Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-03-07T16:15:55.587
Modified: 2026-03-09T13:35:07.393
Link: CVE-2026-29786