CVE-2026-23745

Fixed in a distro release EPSS <1%CVSS 8.2

node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. The node-tar library (<= 7.5.2) fails to sanitize the linkpath of Link (hardlink) and SymbolicLink entries when preservePaths is false (the default secure behavior). This allows malicious archives to bypass the extraction root restriction, leading to Arbitrary File Overwrite via hardlinks and Symlink Poisoning via absolute symlink targets. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.3.

Published 2026-01-16 · CVE record · OSV

Products: isaacs node-tar, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Network Observability (NETOBSERV) 1.11.0, Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8, Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25, Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.27, Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.2, Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3, Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation, Red Hat Cryostat 4, Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes, Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, Red Hat OpenShift Serverless, Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2, Red Hat AMQ Broker 7, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4, Red Hat Connectivity Link 1, Red Hat Developer Hub, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3, Red Hat Fuse 7, Red Hat Hardened Images, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack, Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI), Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4, Red Hat OpenShift GitOps, Red Hat Process Automation 7, Red Hat Quay 3, Red Hat Satellite 6, Red Hat Single Sign-On 7

Fixed upstream

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