tar has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (7.5.13). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of tar?

The latest version of tar is 7.5.13, released 2026-03-23.

Does tar have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of tar.

No, tar is actively maintained. Latest release: 7.5.13 (2026-03-23).

What are alternatives to tar?

Popular alternatives to tar in npm include: debug, minimatch, ansi-styles, brace-expansion, strip-ansi.

What license does tar use?

tar is licensed under BlueOak-1.0.0.

tar

npmv7.5.13

tar for node

License BlueOak-1.0.0permissive144 versions1 maintainers5 deps70,285,836 weekly dl

isaacs/node-tar

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

Contributors (12m)

GitHub stars

0

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.77critical

Download trend

stable(+0.1%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (5)

@isaacs/fs-minipass chownr minipass minizlib yallist

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