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Echo: tar: security update to 7.5.19

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 461729

Description

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

 - 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)

Solution

Update the tar library and its related packages to version 7.5.19 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2026-59873

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 461729

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-59873

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 8.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59873