diff --git a/lib/managers/docker.js b/lib/managers/docker.js
index 01ae3fc05..35d6bef67 100644
--- a/lib/managers/docker.js
+++ b/lib/managers/docker.js
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ if (
 
 // Taken from https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/blob/main/src/strip-absolute-path.ts
 export const stripAbsolutePath = (path) => {
+  // This appears to be a most frequent case, so let's return quickly.
+  if (path === "/") {
+    return "";
+  }
   let parsed = win32.parse(path);
   while (win32.isAbsolute(path) || parsed.root) {
     // windows will think that //x/y/z has a "root" of //x/y/
@@ -762,6 +766,8 @@ export const getImage = async (fullImageName) => {
 /**
  * Warnings such as TAR_ENTRY_INFO are treated as errors in strict mode. While this is mostly desired, we can relax this
  * requirement for one particular warning related to absolute paths.
+ * This callback function checks for absolute paths in the entry read from the archive and strips them using a custom
+ * method.
  *
  * @param entry {tar.ReadEntry} ReadEntry object from node-tar
  */
diff --git a/types/lib/managers/docker.d.ts b/types/lib/managers/docker.d.ts
index dfb316d68..3e5a55ede 100644
--- a/types/lib/managers/docker.d.ts
+++ b/types/lib/managers/docker.d.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 export function detectRancherDesktop(): any;
 export const isWin: boolean;
 export const DOCKER_HUB_REGISTRY: "docker.io";
+export function stripAbsolutePath(path: any): any;
 export function getDirs(dirPath: string, dirName: string, hidden?: boolean, recurse?: boolean): string[];
 export function getOnlyDirs(srcpath: any, dirName: any): any;
 export function getConnection(options: any, forRegistry: any): Promise<any>;
diff --git a/types/lib/managers/docker.d.ts.map b/types/lib/managers/docker.d.ts.map
index 043f5d7fc..44b1453f6 100644
--- a/types/lib/managers/docker.d.ts.map
+++ b/types/lib/managers/docker.d.ts.map
@@ -1 +1 @@
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