Bug 2434729

Summary: CVE-2026-24842 nodejs20: node-tar Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via Hardlink Path Traversal [fedora-43]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component: nodejs20Assignee: Jan Staněk <jstanek>
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Version: 43CC: aradchen, jstanek, tjuhasz
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Description Marco Benatto 2026-01-28 21:12:12 UTC 
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.
Comment 1 Andrei 2026-02-02 09:09:27 UTC 
We assessed that node-tar vulnerability does not applicable here since npm that uses node-tar under the hood for tar creation/extracting adds additional stripping of all links in the archives on top of tar's (vulnerable here) sanitizing. 

Closing.