CVE-2024-28863 — node-tar vulnerable to denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation

2026-10-02T13:19:05.173391+00:00

Affected: isaacs node-tar, node-tar_project node-tar

node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.

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CVE-2024-28863 — node-tar vulnerable to denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation