Input validation error in WinRAR - CVE-2024–36052

 

Input validation error in WinRAR - CVE-2024–36052

Published: June 13, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU92078
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024–36052
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: RARLAB
Affected software:
WinRAR

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service or spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of ANSI escape sequences within the CLI interface. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input via CLI and spoof the archive output or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.


How to mitigate CVE-2024–36052

Install updates from vendor's website.

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