Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2025-69874
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 15:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2025-69874
Complete source record
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