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tar vulnerabilities by version

The latest release, 7.5.22 (Jul 24, 2026), has no known vulnerabilities. 57% of last week’s 90.2M downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities. OSV.dev lists 21 advisories for tar; the newest was published on Jul 24, 2026.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “tar for node”

Latest release
7.5.22
Jul 24, 2026, no known vulnerabilities
Downloads last week
90.2M
All versions, from npm
Advisories on OSV.dev
21
Newest Jul 24, 2026
Licence
BlueOak-1.0.0
OpenSSF Scorecard
6.2/10
isaacs/node-tar (opens in a new tab)

Most-downloaded versions last week

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each checked against OSV.dev. Open a version for its advisories and what to upgrade to.

VersionKnown vulnerabilitiesDownloads
7.5.22latestJul 24, 2026No known vulnerabilities35.1M
6.2.1Mar 21, 202412 known vulnerabilities, worst rated criticalDeprecated17.8M
7.5.16Jun 1, 20265 known vulnerabilities, worst rated critical5.5M
7.5.21Jul 21, 2026No known vulnerabilities3.8M
7.5.19Jun 27, 20261 known vulnerability, worst rated critical3M
7.4.3Jul 26, 202412 known vulnerabilities, worst rated criticalDeprecated3M
7.5.13Mar 23, 20266 known vulnerabilities, worst rated critical3M
7.5.11Mar 9, 20266 known vulnerabilities, worst rated critical2.9M

Who is still on a vulnerable tar

57% of last week’s 90.2M tar downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

Release lines

The newest release of each major line, from the registry. tar doesn’t publish support dates we can check.

LineNewest releaseReleased
77.5.22Jul 24, 2026
66.2.1Mar 21, 2024
55.0.11Aug 19, 2021
44.4.19Aug 19, 2021
33.2.3Jul 26, 2021
22.2.2May 15, 2019

Newest advisories

The 5 most recently published, with the versions each one affects.

  1. CriticalCVE-2026-73566 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m

    node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection

    Affects < 7.5.21. Published Jul 24, 2026.

  2. WarningCVE-2026-59871 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-w8wr-v893-vjvp

    node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion

    Affects < 7.5.18. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  3. CriticalCVE-2026-59873 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-23hp-3jrh-7fpw

    node-tar: Decompression/parse DoS via unlimited input

    Affects < 7.5.19. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  4. CriticalCVE-2026-59874 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-8x88-c5mf-7j5w

    node-tar: Negative tar entry size causes infinite loop in archive replace

    Affects < 7.5.18. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  5. WarningCVE-2026-59875 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-gvwx-54wh-qm9j

    node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records

    Affects < 7.5.17. Published Jul 20, 2026.

All 21 advisories are on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab).

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How this page is checked

StackPrism reads every OSV.dev advisory for tar, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and asks OSV.dev which ones affect each version listed. Releases and their dates come from deps.dev, downloads from npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against OSV.dev, CISA KEV, npm and deps.dev.