nuclei-templates/file/nodejs/tar-path-overwrite.yaml

id: tar-extraction

info:
  name: Path Injection Vulnerability in TAR Extraction
  author: me_dheeraj (https://twitter.com/Dheerajmadhukar)
  severity: info
  description: Insecure TAR archive extraction can result in arbitrary path over write and can result in code injection.
  tags: file,nodejs

file:
  - extensions:
      - all

    matchers:
      - type: regex
        regex:
          - "require\\('tar-stream'\\)"
          - "[\\w\\W]+?\\.createWriteStream\\([\\w\\W]*?\\, [\\w\\W]*?\\)"
          - "[\\w\\W]+?\\.writeFile\\([\\w\\W]*?\\, [\\w\\W]*?\\)"
          - "[\\w\\W]+?\\.writeFileSync\\([\\w\\W]*?\\, [\\w\\W]*?\\)"
        condition: or