CVE-2026-109380
modern-tar 0.3.5 through 0.8.5 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability that allows attackers to produce negative entry sizes via non-octal bytes parsed by readOctal(). Attackers can supply a crafted, optionally gzip-compressed, archive to unpackTar() that buffers chunks indefinitely, exhausting process memory and suppressing later entries.
Published:Oct 12, 2026
Last Modified:Oct 13, 2026
EPS:Oct 12, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00446
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Ayuhito
Product
Modern-tar
Ayuhito
Modern-tar
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
