{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "text": "Medium" }, "category": "csaf_vex", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "text": "TuxCare License Agreement", "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "legal_disclaimer", "text": "This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Cloud Linux Inc. and provide a link to the original.", "title": "Terms of Use" } ], "publisher": { "category": "vendor", "contact_details": "https://tuxcare.com/contact/", "name": "TuxCare", "namespace": "https://tuxcare.com/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://security.tuxcare.com/csaf/v2/els_os/centos6els/vex/2024/cve-2024-28863-els_os-centos6els.json" } ], "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-08-03T13:37:31Z", "generator": { "date": "2026-08-03T13:37:30Z", "engine": { "name": "pyCSAF" } }, "id": "CVE-2024-28863-ELS_OS-CENTOS6ELS", "initial_release_date": "2024-03-21T23:15:00Z", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2024-03-21T23:15:00Z", "number": "1", "summary": "Initial version" }, { "date": "2026-08-01T20:06:13Z", "number": "2", "summary": "Official Publication" }, { "date": "2026-08-03T13:37:31Z", "number": "3", "summary": "Update document" } ], "status": "final", "version": "3" }, "title": "Security update on CVE-2024-28863" }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_name", "name": "Community Enterprise Operating System 6", "product": { "name": "Community Enterprise Operating System 6", "product_id": "CentOS-6", "product_identification_helper": { "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:centos:centos:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" } } } ], "category": "product_family", "name": "Community Enterprise Operating System" }, { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version", "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64", "product": { "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64", "product_id": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:rpm/centos/tar@1.23-15.el6_8?arch=x86_64&epoch=2" } } } ], "category": "architecture", "name": "x86_64" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "Red Hat, Inc." }, { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version", "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64", "product": { "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64", "product_id": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:rpm/cloudlinux/tar@1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1?arch=x86_64&epoch=2" } } }, { "category": "product_version", "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64", "product": { "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64", "product_id": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:rpm/cloudlinux/tar@1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2?arch=x86_64&epoch=2" } } } ], "category": "architecture", "name": "x86_64" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "CloudLinux" } ], "relationships": [ { "category": "default_component_of", "full_product_name": { "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64 as a component of Community Enterprise Operating System 6", "product_id": "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64" }, "product_reference": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64", "relates_to_product_reference": "CentOS-6" }, { "category": "default_component_of", "full_product_name": { "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64 as a component of Community Enterprise Operating System 6", "product_id": "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64" }, "product_reference": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64", "relates_to_product_reference": "CentOS-6" }, { "category": "default_component_of", "full_product_name": { "name": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64 as a component of Community Enterprise Operating System 6", "product_id": "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64" }, "product_reference": "tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64", "relates_to_product_reference": "CentOS-6" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2024-28863", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-400", "name": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.", "title": "Vulnerability description" }, { "category": "general", "text": "The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.", "title": "CVSS score applicability" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64", "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64", "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://cve.tuxcare.com/els/cve/CVE-2024-28863" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7", "url": "https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36", "url": "https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0005/", "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0005/" } ], "release_date": "2024-03-21T23:15:00Z", "remediations": [ { "category": "no_fix_planned", "date": "2026-08-03T11:00:40.366390Z", "details": "This issue is a denial-of-service condition in the node-tar library that only manifests when a Node.js application explicitly extracts attacker-controlled archives with extremely deep path components, i.e., it requires a cooperating component to feed malicious input rather than a passive network trigger. The effect is confined to resource exhaustion and a crash of the invoking Node.js process, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. In typical server/VM deployments where services do not extract untrusted tar archives via node-tar, practical exploit paths are absent, so this can be treated as low priority.", "product_ids": [ "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64", "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64", "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64" ] } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 6.5, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "REQUIRED", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els1.x86_64", "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.tuxcare.els2.x86_64", "CentOS-6:tar-2:1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64" ] } ], "threats": [ { "category": "impact", "details": "Moderate" } ] } ] }