npm package

tar 7.5.21: no known vulnerabilities

tar 7.5.21 has no known vulnerabilities in OSV.dev.

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

Known vulnerabilities
0
None in OSV.dev
Released
Jul 21, 2026
Latest is 7.5.22
Downloads last week
3.8M
4% of tar downloads
Licence
BlueOak-1.0.0
Pulls in
5 packages
Resolved by deps.dev

Newer releases

7.5.21 has nothing to fix today. Newer releases, for when you upgrade:

  • 7.5.22

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

    No known vulnerabilities

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 7.5.21, 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.

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