tar for node
82%
Total Score
healthy
Long-standing, frequently released package with current source, but all recent commits come from one contributor.
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.
Only one contributor made all six recent commits, giving the project a concentrated bus factor and increasing continuity risk if that maintainer becomes unavailable.
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.
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.
| Title | Versions | Severity |
|---|---|---|
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 |
| Dependency | Last Release | Score |
|---|---|---|
chownr Version ^3.0.0 | — | — |
yallist Version ^5.0.0 | — | — |
minipass Version ^7.1.2 | — | — |
minizlib Version ^3.1.0 | — | — |
@isaacs/fs-minipass Version ^4.0.0 | — | — |
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