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Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

CVE-2026-59871

High
7.5/10

Summary

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts to JavaScript numbers, causing downstream path handling such as normalizeWindowsPath(entry.path).split('/') to throw an uncaught TypeError. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • HIGH

CWE-704 - Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

The software does not correctly convert an object, resource, or structure from one type to a different type.

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