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GNU tar vulnerabilities
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Junglewise Threat Intelligence has tracked 8 vulnerabilities in GNU tar: 0 in the last 7 days and 4 in the last 90 days, 0 of them critical and 0 exploited in the wild. The most recent, node-tar stack overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar archive, was published on 24 July 2026.
- Last 7 days
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 4
- Critical, all time
- 0
- Exploited in the wild
- 0
About GNU tar
A GNU utility used to create, maintain, modify, and extract files from archives in the tape archive format.
Latest GNU tar vulnerabilities
- node-tar stack overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar archivemediumCVSS 5.3
- CVE-2026-59875: node-tar denial of service via NUL byte in PAX recordsmediumCVSS 5.3EPSS 0.5%
- CVE-2026-59874: isaacs node-tar infinite loop in tar.replacehighCVSS 7.5EPSS 0.6%
- CVE-2026-59871: isaacs node-tar denial of service via PAX numeric path type confusionmediumCVSS 5.3EPSS 0.6%
- CVE-2026-29786: isaacs node-tar path traversal via drive-relative hardlinkmediumCVSS 6.3EPSS 0.4%
- CVE-2026-23950: node-tar race condition via Unicode path collision in path-reservationshighCVSS 8.8EPSS 0.3%
- CVE-2026-23745: node-tar path traversal via insufficient linkpath sanitizationmediumCVSS 6.1EPSS 0.4%
- CVE-1999-0202: GNU tar remote command execution in FTP sessionshighCVSS 7.5
Most severe GNU tar vulnerabilities
Exploited in the wild first, then by severity and CVSS score.
- CVE-2026-23950: node-tar race condition via Unicode path collision in path-reservationshighCVSS 8.8EPSS 0.3%
- CVE-2026-59874: isaacs node-tar infinite loop in tar.replacehighCVSS 7.5EPSS 0.6%
- CVE-1999-0202: GNU tar remote command execution in FTP sessionshighCVSS 7.5
- CVE-2026-29786: isaacs node-tar path traversal via drive-relative hardlinkmediumCVSS 6.3EPSS 0.4%
- CVE-2026-23745: node-tar path traversal via insufficient linkpath sanitizationmediumCVSS 6.1EPSS 0.4%
- CVE-2026-59871: isaacs node-tar denial of service via PAX numeric path type confusionmediumCVSS 5.3EPSS 0.6%
- CVE-2026-59875: node-tar denial of service via NUL byte in PAX recordsmediumCVSS 5.3EPSS 0.5%
- node-tar stack overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar archivemediumCVSS 5.3
Vulnerabilities per week
The last 13 weeks, by the week each vulnerability was published.
| Week of | Bar | Vulns | Critical |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 Jul 2026 | 3 | 0 | |
| 13 Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20 Jul 2026 | 1 | 0 | |
| 27 Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 |
How this is built
Junglewise Threat Intelligence collects vulnerabilities from NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, FIRST EPSS and vendor advisories, and matches each one to the technologies and vendors it affects. Dates are the date a vulnerability was published, in UTC.
The pages are rebuilt from the database every hour. Frozen weekly and monthly reports never change once published, so they can be cited.
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Cite as: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, "GNU tar vulnerabilities", https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/tar, 26 September 2026.