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tar 7.5.19 vulnerability, and the version that fixes it

tar 7.5.19 has 1 known vulnerability (1 rated high or critical); 7.5.21 fixes it.

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

Known vulnerabilities
1
1 rated high or critical
Released
Jun 27, 2026
Latest is 7.5.22
Downloads last week
3M
3% of tar downloads
Licence
BlueOak-1.0.0
OpenSSF Scorecard
6.2/10
isaacs/node-tar (opens in a new tab)
Pulls in
5 packages
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

7.5.21 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.

  • 7.5.21Upgrade to this

    Fixes the known vulnerability. Released Jul 21, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 7.5.22

    Newest 7.x release and the latest release. Released Jul 24, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

7.5.21 came out on Jul 21, 2026. A coding agent trained before then doesn’t know it exists, so it may suggest an older release. AI knowledge cutoff dates

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Findings

Every advisory for tar 7.5.19

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. CriticalCVE-2026-73566 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-r292-9mhp-454mEPSS: top 57%

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

    Fixed in 7.5.21. Published Jul 24, 2026.

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.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly tar 7.5.19, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

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