CVE-2025-59825: Astral tokio tar Path Traversal Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-3wgq-wrwc-vqmv",
  "modified" : "2025-11-18T16:40:30Z",
  "published" : "2025-09-23T17:45:07Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2025-59825" ],
  "summary" : "astral-tokio-tar has a path traversal in tar extraction",
  "details" : "### Impact\n\nIn versions 0.5.3 and earlier of astral-tokio-tar, tar archives may extract outside of their intended destination directory when using the `Entry::unpack_in_raw` API. Additionally, the `Entry::allow_external_symlinks` control (which defaults to `true`) could be bypassed via a pair of symlinks that individually point within the destination but combine to point outside of it.\n\nThese behaviors could be used individually or combined to bypass the intended security control of limiting extraction to the given directory. This in turn would allow an attacker with a malicious tar archive to perform an arbitrary file write and potentially pivot into code execution (e.g. by overwriting a file that the user or system then executes or uses to execute code). \n\nThe impact of this vulnerability for downstream API users of this crate is **high**, per above. However, for this crate's main downstream user (uv), the impact of this vulnerability is **low** due to its overlap with equivalent user capabilities in source distributions. See GHSA-7j9j-68r2-f35q for additional details.\n\n### Patches\n\nVersions 0.5.4 and newer of astral-tokio-tar address the vulnerability above. Users should upgrade to 0.5.4 or newer.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nUsers are advised to upgrade to version 0.5.4 or newer to address this advisory.\n\nThere is no workaround other than upgrading.\n\n### References\n\n* See GHSA-7j9j-68r2-f35q for how this vulnerability affects uv, astral-tokio-tar's primary downstream user. Observe that **unlike** this advisory, uv's advisory is considered **low severity** due to overlap with intentional existing capabilities in source distributions.\n* This vulnerability is similar to (but not related in code) to CVE-2025-4138 and CVE-2025-4517, which concern Python's tarfile module.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V4",
    "score" : "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "crates.io",
      "name" : "astral-tokio-tar"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "0.5.4"
      } ]
    } ],
    "database_specific" : {
      "last_known_affected_version_range" : "<= 0.5.3"
    }
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/astral-sh/tokio-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-3wgq-wrwc-vqmv"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-9p78-p5g6-gcj8"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/12163"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/astral-sh/tokio-tar/commit/036fdecc85c52458ace92dc9e02e9cef90684e75"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/astral-sh/tokio-tar"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-22", "CWE-61" ],
    "severity" : "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2025-09-23T17:45:07Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2025-09-23T20:15:33Z"
  }
}