Disk Exhaustion via Gzip Bomb in node-tar <7.5.19
CVE-2026-59873 Published on July 8, 2026

node-tar: Decompression/parse DoS via unlimited input
node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.19, node-tar does not enforce hard upper bounds on total decompressed data, entry counts, or decompression ratio in extraction and parsing paths such as src/extract.ts, allowing a small crafted gzip bomb to exhaust disk space and CPU. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.19.

NVD

Weakness Type

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.


Affected Versions

isaacs node-tar Version < 7.5.19 is affected by CVE-2026-59873