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SCA: security update for tar (GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445278

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 7.5.21, node-tar's filesFilter in
 src/list.ts uses the recursive mapHas helper to walk an archive entry path upward with path.dirname() and
 no segment cap when tar.t(...) or tar.x(...) receives a non-empty member-selection list. A crafted GNU L
 or PAX x long-path header with thousands of slash-separated segments reaches this.filter(entry.path,
 entry) in Parser[CONSUMEHEADER] in src/parse.ts before Unpack[CHECKPATH] applies maxDepth, causing an
 uncatchable RangeError stack overflow that terminates asynchronous and streaming Node.js consumers. This
 issue is fixed in version 7.5.21. (CVE-2026-73566)

Solution

Update the tar library and its related packages to version 7.5.21 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445278

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/24/2026

Updated: 8/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.81

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-73566

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-73566