CVE-2021-37712

A flaw was found in the npm package "tar" (aka node-tar). Extracting tar files that contain two directories and a symlink with names containing Unicode values that normalize to the same value on Windows systems made it possible to bypass node-tar symlink checks on directories. This allows an untrusted tar file to extract and overwrite files into an arbitrary location. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and system availability.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8 and Red Hat Software Collection both embed node-tar in the npm command. However, npm explicitly prevents the extraction of symlink via a filter. npm might still be affected via node-gyp, if the attacker is able to control the target URL.

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