GHSA-fp55-jw48-c537
### Impact Versions of astral-tokio-tar prior to 0.6.1 contain a PAX header interpretation bug that allows manipulated entries to be made selectively visible or invisible during extraction with astral-tokio-tar versus other tar implementations. An attacker could use this differential to smuggle unexpected files onto a victim's filesystem. See GHSA-j5gw-2vrg-8fgx for a similar desynchronization bug in astral-tokio-tar. ### Patches Versions 0.6.1 and newer of astral-tokio-tar address this differential. ### Workarounds Users are advised to upgrade to version 0.6.1 or newer to address this advisory. There is no workaround other than upgrading. Users should experience no breaking changes as a result of the upgrade. ### Resources - GHSA-j5gw-2vrg-8fgx is a similar PAX desynchronization bug ### Attribution - Reporter: Adam Harvey (@lawngnome)
Properties
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-fp55-jw48-c537
- severity
- medium
- summary
- astral-tokio-tar is Vulnerable to PAX Header Desynchronization
- cve_id
- GHSA-fp55-jw48-c537
- is_ghsa_only
- true
- ghsa_published
- 2026-05-06T17:26:12Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fp55-jw48-c537
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-05-06T17:26:13Z
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