nanotar is vulnerable to path traversal in parseTar() and parseTarGzip()

Description

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.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 0.2.0

References

• GHSA-92fh-27vv-894w
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2025-69874
• CWE-22
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

nanotar