CVE-2024-28863

node-tar vulnerable to denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Mar 21, 2024
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Mar 11, 2024

Description

node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
node-tarisaacs	< 6.2.1Affected

References

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