> CVE-2026-23950 [HIGH]

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PUBLISHED
2026-01-20 01:15
MODIFIED
2026-01-20 01:15
CVSS_SCORE V3
8.8
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
0.26%
Top 82.6%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD 🔗 2026-01-20 RED HAT 🔗 2026-01-25 CWE MITRE 🔗 2026-11-01 FIRST EPSS 🔗 2026-10-25 GITHUB 🔗 2026-11-04 OSV 🔗 2026-07-26

> DESCRIPTION

node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the `path-reservations` system. On case-insensitive or normalization-insensitive filesystems (such as macOS APFS, In which it has been tested), the library fails to lock colliding paths (e.g., `ß` and `ss`), allowing them to be processed in parallel. This bypasses the library's internal concurrency safeguards and permits Symlink Poisoning attacks via race conditions. The library uses a `PathReservations` system to ensure that metadata checks and file operations for the same path are serialized. This prevents race conditions where one entry might clobber another concurrently. This is a Race Condition which enables Arbitrary File Overwrite. This vulnerability affects users and systems using node-tar on macOS (APFS/HFS+). Because of using `NFD` Unicode normalization (in which `ß` and `ss` are different), conflicting paths do not have their order properly preserved under filesystems that ignore Unicode normalization (e.g., APFS (in which `ß` causes an inode collision with `ss`)). This enables an attacker to circumvent internal parallelization locks (`PathReservations`) using conflicting filenames within a malicious tar archive. The patch in version 7.5.4 updates `path-reservations.js` to use a normalization form that matches the target filesystem's behavior (e.g., `NFKD`), followed by first `toLocaleLowerCase('en')` and then `toLocaleUpperCase('en')`. As a workaround, users who cannot upgrade promptly, and who are programmatically using `node-tar` to extract arbitrary tarball data should filter out all `SymbolicLink` entries (as npm does) to defend against arbitrary file writes via this file system entry name collision issue.

> AFFECTED_PRODUCTS

ℹ️ Aucun produit affecté n'a encore été publié par NVD pour cette CVE.

> CVSS V3 METRICS

CVSS_VECTOR
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
EXPLOITABILITY
2.8
IMPACT
5.3

> MÉTRIQUES CVSS DÉTAILLÉES

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
Métrique Valeur Interprétation
AV (Vecteur d'Attaque)
Attack Vector
Network (N)
Exploit possible à distance via réseau (HTTP, API, etc.)
AC (Complexité d'Attaque)
Attack Complexity
Low (L)
Peu de conditions requises pour exploiter
PR (Privilèges Requis)
Privileges Required
None (N)
Aucune authentification requise
UI (Interaction Utilisateur)
User Interaction
Required (R)
Nécessite une action utilisateur (clic lien, ouverture fichier, etc.)
S (Périmètre)
Scope
Changed (C)
Impact s'étend au-delà du composant compromis
C (Impact Confidentialité)
Confidentiality Impact
Low (L)
Divulgation limitée d'informations
I (Impact Intégrité)
Integrity Impact
High (H)
Modification totale des données possible
A (Impact Disponibilité)
Availability Impact
Low (L)
Interruption partielle du service possible

> RÉSUMÉ DES IMPACTS

Confidentialité
Low
Divulgation limitée d'informations
Intégrité
High
Modification totale des données possible
Disponibilité
Low
Interruption partielle du service possible

> WEAKNESSES

CWE-176 CWE-352 CWE-367

> CWE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS

CWE-176: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding - The product does not properly handle when an input contains Unicode encoding. | CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery - The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor. | CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition - The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.

> RED HAT SECURITY ADVISORIES

Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.2.2 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
The 1.2.2 release of Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer OpenShift Operator. For more details please visit the product documentation at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_trusted_artifa...
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.27.0 Release.
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.27.0 has been released.
Red Hat Security Advisory: linux-sgx security update
An update for linux-sgx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...
Red Hat Security Advisory: linux-sgx security update
An update for linux-sgx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...

> RED HAT SEVERITY ASSESSMENT

THREAT SEVERITY
Important

> GITHUB SECURITY ADVISORY

GHSA-r6q2-hw4h-h46w HIGH

Race Condition in node-tar Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFS

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
NPM / tar
<= 7.5.3
Fixed in: 7.5.4

> OSV (GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE VULNERABILITIES)

node-tar has Race Condition in Path Reservations via Unicode Ligature Collisions on macOS APFS

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
Unknown / Unknown
115 versions affected
ALIASES:
GHSA-r6q2-hw4h-h46w

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
20/01/2026 01:15
Source: NVD
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 01/11/2026 06:58
CWE
Champ modifié: Description CWE
Ancienne valeur:
CWE-176: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding - The product does not properly handle when an input contains Unicode encoding. | CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - The web application does n...
Nouvelle valeur:
CWE-176: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding - The product does not properly handle when an input contains Unicode encoding. | CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery - The web application does not, or ...
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CWE
Champ modifié: Description CWE
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N/A
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CWE-176: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding - The product does not properly handle when an input contains Unicode encoding. | CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - The web application does n...
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{ "severity_scale": null, "threat_severity": "Important" }
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Total des modifications: 40 Dernière mise à jour: 1 week ago

> REFERENCES

https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/3b1abfae650056edfabcbe0a0df5954d390521...
https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-r6q2-hw4h-h46w
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