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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Adoption Passing Confidence
tar-fs 1.16.3 -> 1.16.5 age adoption passing confidence

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

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 3.0.7.

CVE-2025-48387

Impact

v3.0.8, v2.1.2, v1.16.4 and below

Patches

Has been patched in 3.0.9, 2.1.3, and 1.16.5

Workarounds

You can use the ignore option to ignore non files/directories.

  ignore (_, header) {
    // pass files & directories, ignore e.g. symlinks
    return header.type !== 'file' && header.type !== 'directory'
  }

Credit

Thank you Caleb Brown from Google Open Source Security Team for reporting this in detail.


Release Notes

mafintosh/tar-fs (tar-fs)

v1.16.5

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v1.16.4

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@renovate renovate bot added the chore label Aug 13, 2025
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