CVE-2025-59825: astral-tokio-tar has a path traversal in tar extraction

CVE-2025-59825 · Severity: medium · CVSS 4 · Published 2025-09-23

astral-tokio-tar has a path traversal in tar extraction

Technologies: astral-tokio-tar (crates.io). Vendors: crates.io.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-59825 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-59825 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-59825?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4, published 23 September 2025.
Which products and versions are affected?
astral-tokio-tar (crates.io) SEMVER:introduced=0,fixed=0.5.4.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-59825?
Yes. astral-tokio-tar (crates.io): upgrade to 0.5.4 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-59825?
Check whether you run astral-tokio-tar (crates.io) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • astral-tokio-tar (crates.io): upgrade to 0.5.4 or later
    cargo update -p astral-tokio-tar

Affected products

  • astral-tokio-tar (crates.io) SEMVER:introduced=0,fixed=0.5.4

Identifiers

  • CVE-2025-59825
  • GHSA-3wgq-wrwc-vqmv

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