In the current version, Archive::Tar has INSECURE_EXTRACT_MODE:
$Archive::Tar::INSECURE_EXTRACT_MODE This variable indicates whether Archive::Tar should allow files to be extracted outside their current working directory. Allowing this could have security implications, as a malicious tar archive could alter or replace any file the extracting user has permissions to. Therefor, the default is to not allow insecure extractions. If you trust the archive, or have other reasons to allow the archive to write files outside your current working directory, set this variable to true. Note that this is a backwards incompatible change from version 1.36 and before.
So it appears that the issue has been addressed.

In reply to Re: Archive:Tar appears to store absolute pathnames as relative pathnames by keszler
in thread Archive:Tar appears to store absolute pathnames as relative pathnames by Bloodnok

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