CVE-2026-59875

A flaw was found in node-tar, a library for manipulating tar archives in Node.js. A remote attacker could craft a malicious archive containing null characters (NUL bytes) in its metadata. When this archive is processed, the unstripped null characters can cause the application to terminate unexpectedly, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.