tar (crates.io) — known CVEs & security advisories

Known CVE vulnerabilities and GitHub Security Advisories affecting the crates.io package tar, with affected version ranges, CVSS severity, EPSS exploit prediction, and CISA KEV status.

CVEs (4)

• CVE-2026-33055 — CVSS 8.1 (high): tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header…
• CVE-2018-20990 — CVSS 7.5 (high): An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR…
• CVE-2021-38511 — CVSS 7.5 (high): An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create…
• CVE-2026-33056 — CVSS 6.5 (medium): tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's…