High [CVE-2026-73566] Denial of Service via crafted long-path tar archive

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.21, node-tar's filesFilter in src/list.ts uses the recursive mapHas helper to walk an archive entry path upward with path.dirname() and no segment cap when tar.t(...) or tar.x(...) receives a non-empty member-selection list.

A crafted GNU L or PAX x long-path header with thousands of slash-separated segments reaches this.filter(entry.path, entry) in Parser[CONSUMEHEADER] in src/parse.ts before Unpack[CHECKPATH] applies maxDepth, causing an uncatchable RangeError stack overflow that terminates asynchronous and streaming Node.js consumers. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.21.

A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted tar archive with a long-path header. When processing this archive with a non-empty member-selection list, an uncontrolled recursion in the `filesFilter` function can lead to a stack overflow.

This issue results in a denial of service (DoS) by terminating Node.js applications that consume these archives. Important: A denial of service vulnerability exists in the `node-tar` library, affecting Node.js applications that process untrusted tar archives with member selection.

This is considered Important due to the potential for service disruption in applications handling untrusted archive content. Red Hat severity: Important — CVSS 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).