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.

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:47059 advisory.

    * brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity (CVE-2026-13149)

    * tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header (CVE-2026-59874)

    * tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb (CVE-2026-59873)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:47060 advisory.

    * brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity (CVE-2026-13149)

    * tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header (CVE-2026-59874)

    * tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb (CVE-2026-59873)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:47059 advisory.

    Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the     JavaScript programming language.

    Security Fix(es):

    * brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity (CVE-2026-13149)

    * tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header (CVE-2026-59874)

    * tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb (CVE-2026-59873)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:47060 advisory.

    Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the     JavaScript programming language.

    Security Fix(es):

    * brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity (CVE-2026-13149)

    * tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header (CVE-2026-59874)

    * tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb (CVE-2026-59873)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2026-59873)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
330517	RockyLinux 8 : nodejs:22 (RLSA-2026:47059)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	critical
330455	RockyLinux 8 : nodejs:24 (RLSA-2026:47060)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	critical
330450	RHEL 8 : nodejs:22 (RHSA-2026:47059)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
330426	RHEL 8 : nodejs:24 (RHSA-2026:47060)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
325958	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-59873	Nessus	Misc.	critical

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