ID:2985 - Exploit for Privilege escalation in WinRAR - CVE-2018-20250

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges.

The vulnerability exists due to a logical bug. A local attacker can craft the filename field of the ACE format, cause the destination folder (extraction folder) to be ignored, and the relative path in the filename field to become an absolute Path, extract a file to an arbitrary location and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

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