CVE-2025-62518

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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21 Oct 2025, 17:15

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Published : 2025-10-21 17:15

Updated : 2025-10-21 19:31


NVD link : CVE-2025-62518

Mitre link : CVE-2025-62518

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-62518


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CWE
CWE-843

Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')