CVE-2026-43623EPSS p23.3%
CVE-2026-43623CVE-2026-43623
Description
microtar through 0.1.0 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the raw_to_header() function in src/microtar.c that allows attackers to corrupt adjacent stack memory by supplying a crafted TAR archive with non-null-terminated name or linkname fields. The function uses strcpy() to copy 100-byte ustar format fields that lack null terminators, causing writes of up to 355 bytes into a 100-byte destination buffer when mtar_open(), mtar_find(), or mtar_read_header() process attacker-supplied TAR archives.
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.32% probability of exploitation · percentile 23.3% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Last modified | 2026-06-02 |
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