SCA: security update for nanotar (GHSA-92fh-27vv-894w)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 446670

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- nanotar through 0.2.0 has a path traversal vulnerability in parseTar() and parseTarGzip() that allows
remote attackers to write arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory via a crafted tar
archive containing path traversal sequence. (CVE-2025-69874)

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92fh-27vv-894w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 446670

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/31/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-69874

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-69874

cwe: CWE-22