CVE-2014-9983

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory Traversal exists in RAR 4.x and 5.x because an unpack operation follows any symlinks, including symlinks contained in the archive. This allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive.

Affected products

RARLAB RAR: 4.00, 4.01, 4.10, 4.11, 4.20, 5.00 (+12)

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774172
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774172

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