GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m: tar (CVE-2026-73566)

node-tar: Uncontrolled recursion in mapHas/filesFilter allows uncatchable stack-overflow DoS via crafted long-path tar with member selection

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0053 · 45th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 24 Jul 2026, 16:26 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
tar	npm	<7.5.21	7.5.21

Identifiers

GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m · CVE-2026-73566

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-400 · CWE-674

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0053, the 45th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

21 Jul 2026, 22:13 UTC Published by the maintainers as a GitHub repository advisory

Sources

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.