HIGH
isaacs
CVE published 2026-03-07
CVE-2026-29786
CVE-2026-29786 is a high-severity vulnerability in node-tar, 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. The vulnerabili [truncated]