chore(deps): upgrade tar to 7.5.7 to address CVE-2026-24842 - #3375
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tar below 7.5.7 is affected by GHSA-34x7-hfp2-rc4v (CVE-2026-24842), a hardlink path traversal: the security check for hardlink entries and the hardlink creation itself resolve paths with different semantics, so a crafted archive can escape the extraction directory. The declared range was still ^7.5.4. A fresh install already resolves to a patched tar, but the floor is what audit tooling and lockfile-pinned consumers report against, so raise it to the patched version. Refs: nodejs#3284
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npm installandnpm run lintpass.npm testis 108 passing / 6 failing locally — all 6 aretest-download.jscases that bind a local HTTP server and fail withECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:<port>in my sandboxed environment, unrelated to this change. CI covers them.Description of change
tarbelow 7.5.7 is affected by GHSA-34x7-hfp2-rc4v / CVE-2026-24842 (High, CVSS 8.2): the security check for hardlink entries and the hardlink creation itself resolve paths with different semantics, so a crafted archive can place a hardlink outside the extraction directory.node-gyp still declares
"tar": "^7.5.4". In practice a fresh install already resolves to a patchedtar(7.5.22 at time of writing), so this is not an exploitable path in node-gyp itself — but the declared floor is whatnpm auditand lockfile-pinned consumers report against, which is what #3284 asks for. Bumped to the exact patched version, matching what #3271 did for CVE-2026-23950.For the record, #3284's thread also suggests bumping
make-fetch-happenso a newercacachedrops its vulnerabletar. That transitive path is already gone —make-fetch-happenwas replaced with built-in fetch in #3302 (v12.3.0). This PR covers the remaining direct dependency, which is what the reporter was actually asking about.Fixes #3284