CVE-2024-28863: Node tar Denial of Service Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36",
  "modified" : "2024-06-10T18:30:53Z",
  "published" : "2024-03-22T16:57:05Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2024-28863" ],
  "summary" : "Denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation",
  "details" : "## Description: \nDuring some analysis today on npm's `node-tar` package I came across the folder creation process, Basicly if you provide node-tar with a path like this `./a/b/c/foo.txt` it would create every folder and sub-folder here a, b and c until it reaches the last folder to create `foo.txt`, In-this case I noticed that there's no validation at all on the amount of folders being created, that said we're actually able to CPU and memory consume the system running node-tar and even crash the nodejs client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside\n\n## Steps To Reproduce:\nYou can reproduce this issue by downloading the tar file I provided in the resources and using node-tar to extract it, you should get the same behavior as the video\n\n## Proof Of Concept:\nHere's a 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show-casing the exploit: \n\n## Impact\n\nDenial of service by crashing the nodejs client when attempting to parse a tar archive, make it run out of heap memory and consuming server CPU and memory resources\n\n## Report 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Note\nThis report was originally reported to GitHub bug bounty program, they asked me to report it to you a month ago",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "node-tar"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "6.2.1"
      } ]
    } ]
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "tar"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "6.2.1"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28863"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0005"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-400" ],
    "severity" : "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2024-03-22T16:57:05Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2024-03-21T23:15:10Z"
  }
}