CVE-2025-62518 (GCVE-0-2025-62518)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-21 16:13
Modified
2025-10-22 13:23
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
Summary
astral-tokio-tar is a tar archive reading/writing library for async Rust. Versions of astral-tokio-tar prior to 0.5.6 contain a boundary parsing vulnerability that allows attackers to smuggle additional archive entries by exploiting inconsistent PAX/ustar header handling. When processing archives with PAX-extended headers containing size overrides, the parser incorrectly advances stream position based on ustar header size (often zero) instead of the PAX-specified size, causing it to interpret file content as legitimate tar headers. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.6. There are no workarounds.
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astral-sh tokio-tar Version: < 0.5.6
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