CVE-2024-28863 node-tar vulnerable to denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation

2024-03-2122:10:23

CWE-770

CWE-400

GitHub_M

github.com

cve-2024-28863

node-tar

denial of service

folder count validation

CVSS3

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

poc

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:node-tar_project:node-tar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "node-tar_project",
    "product": "node-tar",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.2.1",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]