diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 6a8d19c981b36..d9b14168aa063 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
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@@ -203,6 +204,7 @@
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-    },
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-          "url": "https://github.com/sponsors/RubenVerborgh"
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-        "follow-redirects": "^1.0.0",
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         "mkdirp": "^1.0.3",
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@@ -13857,6 +13821,15 @@
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/minipass/-/minipass-5.0.0.tgz",
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       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/tcompare/-/tcompare-5.0.7.tgz",
@@ -15044,6 +15017,7 @@
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       "name": "@npmcli/smoke-tests",
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+      "extraneous": true,
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6f47692931458..a4313f4799a8b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
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     "ssri": "^10.0.3",
-    "tar": "^6.1.13",
+    "tar": "^6.2.1",
     "text-table": "~0.2.0",
     "tiny-relative-date": "^1.3.0",
     "treeverse": "^3.0.0",