CVE-2015-8860: Node.js

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

Affected products

• Node.js Node.js: up to and including 1.8.4

Published 2017-01-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.