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GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m: node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection

July 24, 2026

node-tar (npm tar) contains an uncontrolled-recursion stack-exhaustion DoS in the internal mapHas helper used by filesFilter. When a consumer calls tar.t(...) or tar.x(...) with a non-empty member-selection list, node-tar installs a filter that closes over the recursive mapHas (src/list.ts:33-44). mapHas walks an entry path upward one path.dirname() call per recursion with no segment cap. A single crafted tar with a GNU-L (or PAX-x) long-path header can deliver a path of tens of thousands of /-separated segments (up to maxMetaEntrySize = 1 MiB). The recursion overflows the call stack, throwing an uncatchable RangeError that terminates the Node process on async/streaming consumers.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m
  • github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/631ae59121bf8fc8a22bbae35f074cb9b789cd4a
  • github.com/isaacs/node-tar/releases/tag/v7.5.21
  • github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m

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Affected versions

All versions before 7.5.21

Fixed versions

  • 7.5.21

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.5.21 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Source file

npm/tar/GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m.yml

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