TARmageddon Strikes: High Profile Security Vulnerability In Popular Rust Library

Posted by bob on Oct 22, 2025 5:33 AM EDT
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Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library...

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