CVE-2026-109380
HIGH
NVD
CVSS Score
7.5
Severity
HIGH
Published
Oct 12, 2026
Vendor
unknown
Description
modern-tar 0.3.5 through 0.8.5 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability that allows attackers to produce negative entry sizes via non-octal bytes parsed by readOctal(). Attackers can supply a crafted, optionally gzip-compressed, archive to unpackTar() that buffers chunks indefinitely, exhausting process memory and suppressing later entries.
References
- https://github.com/ayuhito/modern-tar
- https://github.com/ayuhito/modern-tar/blob/v0.8.5/src/tar/encoding.ts
- https://github.com/ayuhito/modern-tar/commit/181c8cb75351867535057817ada4802a90fe416e
- https://github.com/ayuhito/modern-tar/pull/195
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/modern-tar-0.3.5-through-0.8.5-memory-exhaustion-via-malformed-octal-size-field