tar@7.5.10 vulnerabilities

tar for node

  • latest version

    7.5.11

  • latest non vulnerable version

  • first published

    14 years ago

  • latest version published

    6 days ago

  • licenses detected

  • Direct Vulnerabilities

    Known vulnerabilities in the tar package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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    Symlink Attack

    tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js.

    Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via tar.x() extraction, which allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory with a drive-relative symlink target - like C:../../../target.txt.

    How to fix Symlink Attack?

    Upgrade tar to version 7.5.11 or higher.

    <7.5.11