Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting astral-tokio-tar package, versions <0.6.2
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- published19 May 2026
- disclosed18 May 2026
- creditwoodruffw
Introduced: 18 May 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-843 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade astral-tokio-tar to version 0.6.2 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') through the interpretation of PAX headers during the extraction process. An attacker can introduce unauthorized files onto the target filesystem by crafting archive entries that are selectively visible or invisible depending on the extraction tool used.