CVE-2026-59873: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in isaacs node-tar
node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.19, node-tar does not enforce hard upper bounds on total decompressed data, entry counts, or decompression ratio in extraction and parsing paths such as src/extract.ts, allowing a small crafted gzip bomb to exhaust disk space and CPU. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.19.
CVE-2026-59873: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in isaacs node-tar
Description
node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.19, node-tar does not enforce hard upper bounds on total decompressed data, entry counts, or decompression ratio in extraction and parsing paths such as src/extract.ts, allowing a small crafted gzip bomb to exhaust disk space and CPU. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.19.
CVSS v4.0
Score 9.2critical
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- GitHub_M
- Date Reserved
- 2026-07-07T15:41:53.607Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a4e73c2c9d9e3dbe36042c5
Added to database: 07/08/2026, 15:58:58 UTC
Last updated: 07/08/2026, 15:58:58 UTC
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