Path traversal in UnRar - CVE-2017-14120

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Path traversal in UnRar - CVE-2017-14120

Published: September 3, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38366
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14120
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
UnRar
Software vendor:
RARLAB

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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