CVE-2024-12905 – “Tar-fs Path Traversal Vulnerability”

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2024-12905 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 22e2d327-25fe-45d7-9f0c-dcd23b7108df

    Mar. 27, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (“Link Following”) and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (“Path Traversal”). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package.

    This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8.

    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
    Added CWE CWE-22
    Added CWE CWE-59
    Added Reference https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-fs/commit/a1dd7e7c7f4b4a8bd2ab60f513baca573b44e2ed
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