tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size headers in the case where it was different from the base header. This is almost the inverse of the astral-tokio-tar issue. Any discrepancy in how tar parsers honor file size can be used to create archives that appear differently when unpacked by different archivers. In this case, the tar-rs (Rust tar) crate is an outlier in checking for the header size - other tar parsers (including e.g. Go archive/tar) unconditionally use the PAX size override. This can affect anything that uses the tar crate to parse archives and expects to have a consistent view with other parsers. This issue has been fixed in version 0.4.45.
References
| Link | Resource |
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| https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/commit/de1a5870e603758f430073688691165f21a33946 | Patch |
| https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-gchp-q4r4-x4ff | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62518 | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
23 Mar 2026, 15:27
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| References | () https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/commit/de1a5870e603758f430073688691165f21a33946 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-gchp-q4r4-x4ff - Exploit, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62518 - Third Party Advisory | |
| First Time |
Alexcrichton tar-rs
Alexcrichton |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:alexcrichton:tar-rs:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* | |
| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 8.1 |
20 Mar 2026, 07:16
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Information
Published : 2026-03-20 07:16
Updated : 2026-03-23 15:27
NVD link : CVE-2026-33055
Mitre link : CVE-2026-33055
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-33055
JSON object : View
Products Affected
alexcrichton
- tar-rs
CWE
CWE-843
Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
