AIKIDO-2026-10683
astral-tokio-tar is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation
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Medium Risk
This Affects:
astral-tokio-tarTL;DR
Affected versions of this package contain a PAX header interpretation bug that allows manipulated entries to be made selectively visible or invisible during extraction with astral-tokio-tar versus other tar implementations. An attacker could use this differential to smuggle unexpected files onto a victim's filesystem.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
astral-tokio-tar is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation in versions 0.0.1 - 0.6.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the astral-tokio-tar library to the patch version.
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