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

Vulnerability Description

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.

References

• https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36
• https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0005/