CVE Alert: CVE-2024-12905

Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2024-12905

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.

Affected Endpoints:

No affected endpoints listed.

Published Date:

3/27/2025, 5:15:53 PM

🔥 CVSS Score:

Exploit Status:

Not Exploited

References:

• https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-fs/commit/a1dd7e7c7f4b4a8bd2ab60f513baca573b44e2ed

Recommended Action:

No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.

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