Package Health

tar

tar for node

Latest 7.5.22NPMNPM

82%

Total Score

healthy

Long-standing, frequently released package with current source, but all recent commits come from one contributor.

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Health Score Breakdown

Project backingcaution

The repository is owned by an individual user rather than an organization, so the one-contributor concentration is not visibly offset by broader organizational backing.

Repo bus factorcaution

Only one contributor made all six recent commits, giving the project a concentrated bus factor and increasing continuity risk if that maintainer becomes unavailable.

Repo toolingcaution

The project uses TypeScript, npm scripts, and esbuild, providing an established build process. No repository security-scanning tool was detected, which is a modest transparency gap for a security-sensitive archive library.

Workflow auditcaution

Both workflows were analyzed successfully with no injection or high-confidence audit findings. However, all seven action references are unpinned and one workflow uses top-level write permissions, creating workflow reproducibility and least-privilege concerns.

Vulnerabilities

TitleVersionsSeverity
AIKIDO-2026-48452
tar is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion in versions 3.0.0 - 7.5.20.
3.0.0 - 7.5.20
Medium
AIKIDO-2026-401672
tar is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.0.0 - 7.5.17.
0.0.0 - 7.5.17
Medium
CVE-2026-59873
tar is vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in versions 0.0.0 - 7.5.18.
0.0.0 - 7.5.18
High
AIKIDO-2026-732519
tar is vulnerable to Denial of Service in versions 0.0.0 - 7.5.17.
0.0.0 - 7.5.17
High
AIKIDO-2026-568044
tar is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.0.1 - 7.5.16.
0.0.1 - 7.5.16
Medium

Package versions

Maintainers

Direct Dependencies

DependencyLast ReleaseScore
chownr
Version ^3.0.0
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yallist
Version ^5.0.0
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minipass
Version ^7.1.2
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minizlib
Version ^3.1.0
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@isaacs/fs-minipass
Version ^4.0.0
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Info

Last Published
2 months ago
Created
14 years ago
Unpacked Size
2.2 MB

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