CVE-2024-28863: Denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation

March 22, 2024

Denial of service by crashing the nodejs client when attempting to parse a tar archive, make it run out of heap memory and consuming server CPU and memory resources

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36
github.com/isaacs/node-tar
github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7
github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28863

Code Behaviors & Features

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