CVE-2024-28863
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.66%Denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation
Published: 3/22/2024Modified: 4/29/2026
Description
node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/node-tarfrom 0, < 6.0.5+ds1+~cs11.3.9-1+deb11u3
- npm/node-tarfrom 0, < 6.2.1
- npm/tarfrom 0, < 6.2.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28863
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-28863
- PATCHhttps://github.com/isaacs/node-tar
- WEBhttps://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7
- WEBhttps://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0005