High severity · published Sep 3, 2017
CVE-2017-14120
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…
7.5
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 82% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
UN
Unrar · Rarlab
0.0.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14120
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14120
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/20/1
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/874059
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00026.html
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