Is CVE-2026-59875 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-59875?

CVE-2026-59875 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (5.3).

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CVE-2026-59875

Description

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.17.