astral-tokio-tar is a tar archive reading/writing library for async Rust. In versions 0.5.6 and earlier, malformed PAX extensions were silently skipped when parsing tar archives. This silent skipping (rather than rejection) of invalid PAX extensions could be used as a building block for a parser differential, for example by silently skipping a malformed GNU “long link” extension so that a subsequent parser would misinterpret the extension. In practice, exploiting this behavior in astral-tokio-tar requires a secondary misbehaving tar parser, i.e. one that insufficiently validates malformed PAX extensions and interprets them rather than skipping or erroring on them. This vulnerability is considered low-severity as it requires a separate vulnerability against any unrelated tar parser. This issue has been fixed in version 0.6.0.
References
| Link | Resource |
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| https://github.com/astral-sh/tokio-tar/commit/e5e0139cae4577eeedf5fc16b65e690bf988ce52 | Patch |
| https://github.com/astral-sh/tokio-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-6gx3-4362-rf54 | Mitigation Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
History
17 Apr 2026, 21:09
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| First Time |
Astral
Astral astral-tokio-tar |
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| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.3 |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:astral:astral-tokio-tar:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* | |
| References | () https://github.com/astral-sh/tokio-tar/commit/e5e0139cae4577eeedf5fc16b65e690bf988ce52 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/astral-sh/tokio-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-6gx3-4362-rf54 - Mitigation, Vendor Advisory | |
| Summary |
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20 Mar 2026, 00:16
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| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2026-03-20 00:16
Updated : 2026-04-17 21:09
NVD link : CVE-2026-32766
Mitre link : CVE-2026-32766
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-32766
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Products Affected
astral
- astral-tokio-tar
CWE
CWE-436
Interpretation Conflict
