CVE-2017-14120

HIGH

unrar 0.0.1 - Path Traversal via RAR v2 Archive Extraction

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability for RAR v2 archives: pathnames of the form ../[filename] are unpacked into the upper directory.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/874059
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/20/1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00026.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0211
EPSS Percentile 79.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
rarlab/unrar 0.0.1
Published Sep 03, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026