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node-tar Decompression/Parse DoS Vulnerability via Unlimited Input

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability (CVE-2026-59873) exists in the `node-tar` library (npm/tar <= 7.5.18) due to a lack of hard upper bounds on total decompressed data or entry counts, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to craft a small 'Gzip Bomb' archive that exhausts server resources like disk space and CPU, leading to system-wide failure and service outages.

tar <= 7.5.18 denial-of-service software-supply-chain library-vulnerability nodejs tar gzip-bomb cve-2026-59873
2t 1c
high advisory

Oras-Go Tar Extraction Vulnerability Allows Current Working Directory Escape (CVE-2026-50163)

An attacker can craft a malicious OCI artifact with a tarball layer containing a hardlink entry that uses a relative path for its target, which, when extracted by `oras-go` (<= 2.6.1) or the `oras` CLI, allows the hardlink to resolve against the process's current working directory (CWD) instead of the intended extraction base, leading to arbitrary file read or modification in the victim's CWD via an inode-sharing vulnerability.

oras-go/v2 +1 vulnerability supply-chain go linux tar hardlink path-traversal arbitrary-file-read +1
5t 3i
high advisory

MOTW Bypass via CAB, TAR, and 7-Zip Chaining

A newly discovered Mark of the Web (MOTW) bypass technique utilizes a chain of CAB, TAR, and 7-Zip archives to circumvent SmartScreen and execute files without security warnings.

motw bypass phishing defense-evasion archive 7-zip cab tar
2r 2t 1i