Bug 2498783

Summary:	CVE-2026-59875 nodejs20: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted archive with NUL bytes in metadata [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component:	nodejs20	Assignee:	Jan Staněk <jstanek>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	aradchen, jstanek, tjuhasz
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Description Jon Moroney 2026-07-09 21:47:59 UTC

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node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.17.

Comment 1 Jan Staněk 2026-07-30 12:15:34 UTC

nodejs20 is no longer supported by upstream, as it reached it's End-of-Life. We do not plan to release any more updates for it. Users are advised to migrate to a newer release (nodejs22, nodejs24).