CVE-2026-26960

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-26960
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-26960.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-26960
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-02-20T01:07:52.979Z
Modified
2026-03-03T01:22:49.517947Z
Severity
  • 7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
node-tar has Arbitrary File Read/Write via Hardlink Target Escape Through Symlink Chain in Extraction
Details

node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. When using default options in versions 7.5.7 and below, an attacker-controlled archive can create a hardlink inside the extraction directory that points to a file outside the extraction root, enabling arbitrary file read and write as the extracting user. Severity is high because the primitive bypasses path protections and turns archive extraction into a direct filesystem access primitive. This issue has been fixed in version 7.5.8.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-22"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/26xxx/CVE-2026-26960.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/isaacs/node-tar

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
6b8eba0ef367ac937e703238daa6df94ae6f823f

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.0
0.1.10
0.1.11
0.1.12
0.1.13
0.1.2
0.1.3
0.1.5
0.1.6
0.1.7
0.1.8
0.1.9
v0.*
v0.1.14
v0.1.15
v0.1.16
v0.1.17
v0.1.18
v0.1.19
v0.1.20
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.0.3
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.1.0
v2.1.1
v2.2.1
v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.0.1
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v3.1.10
v3.1.11
v3.1.12
v3.1.13
v3.1.14
v3.1.15
v3.1.2
v3.1.3
v3.1.4
v3.1.5
v3.1.6
v3.1.7
v3.1.8
v3.1.9
v3.2.0
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.1
v4.0.2
v4.1.0
v4.1.1
v4.1.2
v4.2.0
v4.3.0
v4.3.1
v4.3.2
v4.3.3
v4.4.0
v4.4.1
v4.4.10
v4.4.11
v4.4.12
v4.4.13
v4.4.2
v4.4.3
v4.4.4
v4.4.5
v4.4.6
v4.4.7
v4.4.8
v4.4.9
v5.*
v5.0.0
v5.0.1
v5.0.2
v5.0.3
v5.0.4
v5.0.5
v6.*
v6.0.0
v6.0.1
v6.0.2
v6.0.3
v6.0.4
v6.0.5
v6.1.0
v6.1.1
v6.1.10
v6.1.11
v6.1.12
v6.1.13
v6.1.14
v6.1.15
v6.1.2
v6.1.3
v6.1.4
v6.1.5
v6.1.6
v6.1.7
v6.1.8
v6.1.9
v6.2.0
v6.2.1
v7.*
v7.0.0
v7.0.1
v7.1.0
v7.2.0
v7.3.0
v7.4.0
v7.4.1
v7.4.2
v7.4.3
v7.4.4
v7.5.0
v7.5.1
v7.5.2
v7.5.3
v7.5.4
v7.5.5
v7.5.6
v7.5.7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-26960.json"