CVE-2026-59873

highCVSS 7.5covered by 1 sourcefirst seen 2026-07-08

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.19, node-tar does not enforce hard upper bounds on total decompressed data, entry counts, or decompression ratio in extraction and parsing paths such as src/extract.ts, allowing a small crafted gzip bomb to exhaust disk space and CPU. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.19.

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Exploitation outlook

Low exploitation risk0.29% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 21% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Advisory coverage (1)

highCVE-2026-59873: node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.19, node-tar does not…nvd · 2026-07-08

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